The festive season is coming up and that means that small businesses will have additional stock to find room for.

Did you know that our self-storage facilities are accessible to you 24 hours a day, 365 days a year?

You can access your stock whenever you need to so you can fill up shop shelves as they empty without keeping all your seasonal stock on the premises.

Of course, there are limitations on what you can store for safety reasons. So you can’t store the following:

Food and perishable goods unless they are securely packed. We don’t want to attract the interest of rodents or bugs!

Birds, fish, animals and any other living creature.

Combustible or Flammable materials such as gas, paint, petrol, oil or cleaning solvents and compressed gases.

Christmas gift storage can also be a headache for families if you want your presents to be a surprise and you live in a small home. If it is something that needs to be assembled, where are you going to find the space to do it?

This is also the time of year when older children return home from college or university complete with all their clutter!

There is a simple solution,.

Why not rent a storage unit for a short time to take care of all these problems.  Call us to find out more.

We have to know something about a wide range of conditions, businesses and products to be able to plan and work effectively for our clients.

For example, did you know that there is a slowdown in shipping for China during its New Year celebrations, when everyone has a two-week holiday?  That means there is a four-week slowdown in goods shipped from China because of the time it takes for them to get to the UK.

Then there are the effects of the still-unresolved process of the UK leaving the EU. We were super-busy before the last deadline, when businesses were stock piling materials and products to avoid disruption of supplies immediately after the expected leaving date at the end of March.  Now, of course, with the extension to October, the flow has slowed down, which gives us the capacity to take on more work.

There are many sectors for which we supply haulage services and for each we have to understand the conditions necessary to get customers’ orders to them on time and undamaged.

This includes fresh fruit and veg for superstores, which of course has to be moved both refrigerated for freshness and quickly.

Then there is glass, which we transport for another client – without breakages!

We have mentioned the supply and siting of cabins and materials for the construction industry previously.

Another industry for which we work is the UK film industry, although we cannot say a great deal about that as it is all confidential.

However, what many people do not realise is that the UK film industry is large and growing. Figures published this year by the BFI (British Film Industry) revealed that the market share for independent films had increased from 9.5% in 2017 to 11.7% in 2018. A total of 202 films was produced in 2018, at a cost of £1.924 billion.

And of course, the industry, like any other, needs supplies to be delivered on time to wherever it needs them!

Whatever the industry, we have the capacity to provide a seamless service from sorting out all the necessary permits and paperwork to collection, safe transportation and delivery, whether it’s a wide load, a high load or a container-full of stuff!