self storage/storing furniture - anyone done it?

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We've recently moved and our old sofas don't really wor in the new house. However, the point of buying this house was that it gave us some money to perhaps get a cottage in the country at a later date (say in a year or so). The
question is is it worth storing the sofas - I think yes, husband's not so sure - adn if we do what's the cheapest way of doing it. We'll need to keep at least one of them until the new sofas arrive so need storage that we can add to - just don't want to spend so much that we could've bought three new ones.

We live in N London

Any suggestions?

could you rent a garage off the council somewhere? As long as you wrapped the sofas up tight in a strong polythene so mice couldnt get in this could be a viable solution. Dont know how much storage companies cost

Hi we used A1 self storage (they are in N London - can't remember exactly where - we lived in Cricklewood and it wasn't too far from there). They were very reasonable - we stored a lot of furniture and it cost us £60 per month including insurance. The units are dry, secure and only accessible by you.

Try 118118 for their number.

HTH

We rent a garage in N London (N13), it costs us £110.50 a quarter. We have stored armchairs in there for a couple of months before they found a new home with no problems. But wrapping them up in polythene does sound better as a long term solution.
We also use it to store all the baby stuff in big plastic boxes that ds has grown out of ready for bump. ds is 2y8m - that was all still fine when retrieved in Nov to lend to a visiting friend from Oz.
If you live close by I will get the details of the man who rents the garages as I do know that they are dry.

That would be great Debbiemum - have to get them out of our old house by Saturday!

I will try and get the number tonight for you, alternatively, if you go down there during the day the son of the chap who rents the garages is usually in the end garage on the right.
The garages are at the end of Beech Rd, try this link for a map.
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This is my first link so hope it works. If it doesn't please copy & paste the text within the curly brackets into the address bar.
Debbie

lets try again with the link
map

thanks for that

Well it's either OXfam or storing in the garage. It's only one (admittedly large) sofa. If anyone wanted it on semi permanent loan and lives in N London (don't think the country cottage will come off for at least a year) they'd be welcome to it - can't face just chucking it and proper storage is sooo expensive. Or does anyone have storage spave they'd like to share - be happy to chip in. Hope this makes sense - hubby hassling me to go to bed. Debbie the mum thanks for the link will check out - but do also let me know if you'd like to share costs - would happily pay half. Or as I say any mumsnetter out there need to borrow a sofa for a long loan?