Space Station’s flagship Uxbridge storage centre is so popular with customers that more room is needed.
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Space Station Self Storage jumped to the rescue when a local school put out an SOS for someone to help them free up space.
Two giant containers were quickly made available for free to headmaster Kevin Jennings of Iqra Islamic School, in Grasmere Avenue, Slough, Berkshire SL2 5JD.
Most people aren’t lucky enough to have a $1 million mint condition of a Batman or Superman – but lots of Space Station Self Storage customers have boxes of books, papers and comics in their storage rooms that are just as valuable to them and need looking after.
The latest original Marvel superhero comics have just gone to auction in New York – with Action Comics #1, the first Superman issue selling for $1 million. Days later Detective Comics #27 in which Batman made his crime-fighting debut sold for $1.0755 million.
These days it’s difficult to get a cat in a flat with you, let alone swing it when you have moved in some furniture and a few must-have possessions, but some enterprising people have found a novel way to create some room to breathe with self storage space.
For less than the cost of a night down the pub, some people fed up with no room at home are renting extra space at their local self storage centres.
Two Slough Space Station staff earned feathers in their caps for harmlessly catching a bird of prey stuck in the storage centre rafters.
Dave Smedley, area manager, and Ken Nichols, of the maintenance crew, spent four hours patiently tracking the lost kestrel in the self storage facility’s roof space before finally catching the beautiful bird with two fishing nets and returning it to the wild. (more…)
Most people have a room in their home that is stacked up with ‘just in case we need it’ stuff that they can’t bear to throw away.
That wasted space is costing you money because if the room was cleared out and let to a lodger, you could earn up to £4,250 a year rent and pay no tax.
Just think what you could do with an extra £80 a week if you are having a tough time making ends meet in the recession. (more…)
If your garage looks like the local rubbish tip because it’s stuffed full of bikes, garden furniture and other things you think you might need at some time, then now’s the time to think about self storage.
While autumn is with us, the first frost has yet to strike and if you don’t want to spend another winter morning shivering in the dark and freezing cold defrosting your car, start sorting your garage now so you have room to actually park your car inside. (more…)
Self storage was invented in the US and so was the new pastime that’s taking over from car-booting as the nation’s favourite bargain hunt – storage unit treasure hunts.
Storage facilities all over the States are opening up the doors of ‘delinquent’ payers who have failed to keep up with their bills and selling off their treasured and not so treasured possessions to anyone who makes the best bid.
“You go through lots of lockers before you find treasures,” said Pat Wagner, 72, avoiding an answer. (more…)
Chris heads down to his storage unit whenever he’s going through a rough patch, spending time with his prize possession; Derek the dalek who always lifts his spirits. 35-year-old Maria readily admits that her storage unit is her life. Everything she owns is locked away in a three-metre by three metre box. Maria moved into storage as a short term measure, but three years on, she’s still homeless and there’s little chance of her moving into a place of her own. (more…)
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