First and foremost, make sure to invest in high quality packing materials. There’s nothing worse than finally bringing home that dinner set or mirror from the storage unit and discovering that it has been smashed to smithereens. Whilst you might be tempted to make do with a few empty boxes from the local supermarket to save yourself a few pounds, in the long run this is a false economy, as it will cost you a lot more to replace that broken mirror or dinner set than to buy some decent boxes.

When using a self storage Stroud facility, we recommend packing up your storage unit with the most important, useful items to the front, and the least important at the back. The reason behind this is so that you can easily access those essential bits and bobs without having to spend an hour scouring your belongings. Moving house is stressful enough, without adding to your worries by wasting time searching for items that are lost amongst the piles of boxes inside of your storage unit!