Storage for Moving House in London
Moving dates move. Completion falls through, your tenancy starts two weeks after you hand back the keys, or the builders are still in the kitchen when you’re supposed to move in. We collect from your front door, store your belongings in clean, alarmed units, and redeliver to your new address the moment you’re ready.
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Temporary storage during a house move
London is one of the busiest self storage markets in Europe. The Self Storage Association UK reported that the UK self storage industry reached £1.2 billion in annual turnover in 2025, with London and the South East generating the highest demand. High property costs, short tenancy notice periods, and misaligned completion dates mean thousands of people across the capital need somewhere safe for their belongings every month. We collect from your door, store everything in clean, alarmed, secured units, and redeliver when you call. You don’t deal with a separate storage facility or arrange a van yourself. We handle the whole thing.
Why book storage through your removals team
Book storage with us and the same people who loaded your furniture into the van will unload it at the other end. There’s no handover to a separate storage company, no risk of items being repacked by people who didn’t pack them, and no second firm to coordinate with. One team, one fixed weekly rate, one phone number if anything changes. Our house removals service regularly includes a storage period when completion dates shift, so your belongings never sit in limbo while a chain waits to resolve.
Storage between tenancies, short-term or long-term
Short-term storage covers the gap between moving out and moving in, typically a few days to a few weeks. Long-term storage suits households going through a renovation, businesses holding stock, or anyone downsizing who needs more time to decide what stays. We charge by the week with no minimum contract, so you pay only for what you use. The ONS 2021 Census recorded more than 3.6 million households in Greater London, and the private rented sector’s short notice periods and overlapping tenancy dates make temporary storage a practical need for thousands of people every year. Clients needing storage in Islington and across North London come to us regularly when tenancy gaps leave them between properties.
What we can store for you
Household furniture, boxed contents, white goods, bicycles, sports equipment, files and documents, business stock and equipment. We store the entire contents of a three-bed house as readily as three boxes from a studio flat. If you’ve booked a packing service alongside your storage, our team boxes and wraps everything correctly before it goes in, so nothing arrives damaged and every item is easy to find when you need it back.
What affects your storage cost
Volume, unit size, and duration are the main factors. Storing a single room for two weeks is a very different job to keeping the full contents of a four-bed house for three months. We quote based on what you actually have, not a standard unit size that could be too big or too small. Customers across Hackney and East London regularly use us for storage during renovation projects, and a fixed quote from the start means no surprises along the way.
Price guide
These starting rates give a realistic guide. Every job is quoted individually before you commit.
| Storage | Typical | Guide price (incl. VAT) |
|---|---|---|
| Small unit (25 sq ft, boxes / 1 room) | Per week | from £18 / wk |
| Studio (50 sq ft) | Per week | £32.40 / wk |
| 1–2 bed (75–100 sq ft) | Per week | £48 – £57.60 / wk |
| 3–5 bed (150–200 sq ft) | Per week | £81.60 – £105.60 / wk |
| Collection & delivery | Per trip | Priced as a move |
| Long-term (12+ / 26+ weeks) | Discount | 10% / 15% off |
All prices include VAT at 20%. One-off security pack £14.40. Your confirmed price is fixed before collection day.
What’s included
- Collection from your door and redelivery to your chosen address
- Clean, alarmed and secured storage units
- Weekly pricing with no minimum contract
- Goods-in-transit insurance during collection and redelivery
- Storage insurance while your belongings are in our care
- One point of contact throughout
Optional extras
- Professional packing before storage
- Specialist wrapping for art, antiques and fragile items
- Same-day collection for urgent storage situations
- Regular-access long-term storage for businesses
Storage with collection, so you never visit a unit
Most storage in London is self storage: you hire a van, drive to an industrial estate, carry everything up to a unit yourself, then do the whole thing in reverse when your new place is ready. That is two extra moves on top of the one you are already paying for.
We work the other way round. A crew arrives at your old address, wraps and loads your belongings, and takes them straight to a secured unit. When your dates line up, the same crew brings everything to the new address. You never see the inside of a storage facility and you never hire a van.
Storage after moving out, before moving in
The most common reason people call us is a gap between two dates. A sale completes on a Friday and the purchase completes the following Wednesday. A tenancy ends on the last of the month and the next one starts a fortnight later. A chain slips and the completion date moves twice. In every one of those cases your belongings need somewhere to be, and a one-day removal turns into a removal, a storage period and a second delivery. Our guide to storage costs during a house move sets out what each of those stages adds.
We quote all three as one job at one weekly rate, so the storage period does not become a separate negotiation with a separate company halfway through your move. If your date shifts again, you call the same number.
Storage between house moves for a renovation
Renovations run long. If the kitchen is still being fitted when you are due to move in, or a floor is coming up before the furniture arrives, we collect the contents of the affected rooms, hold them for as long as the work takes and redeliver room by room as each one is finished. You are billed by the week, so an overrun costs you a week rather than a renegotiated contract.
What collection and redelivery covers
Collection, wrapping, loading, the storage period itself, insurance throughout and redelivery to an address of your choosing are all in the weekly rate. There is no separate access charge for redelivery and no handling fee at either end. If you need part of your load back early, say a cot or a desk, we retrieve it and deliver it without ending the storage period.
How London storage works with us
Get in touch
Call or use the form above. Tell us roughly what needs storing and how long you’ll need it. We’ll ask a few quick questions and come straight back to you.
Your weekly rate confirmed
We come back with a fixed weekly price, nothing added on collection day. No minimum term to sign up to, no lock-in.
Collection from your door
Your crew arrives at the agreed time, wraps anything fragile, and loads your belongings carefully into the right unit. You don’t lift a thing.
Redelivery to your door
Call us when you want your things back. We deliver to your chosen address at a time that suits you, and the same crew handles it from start to finish.
Why book storage with your removals company
Insured from collection to delivery
Your belongings are covered the moment we collect them. Goods-in-transit insurance during the journey, storage insurance while they’re with us. No gap in cover at any point.
Pay by the week, stop when you’re done
You pay by the week and stop when you’re done. No minimum term, no early exit fee, no admin charge if you need to extend.
Clean, alarmed storage units
Dry, secure and alarmed facilities. Your belongings leave in the same condition they arrived in. We check everything in carefully and treat it the same way on the way out.
One team throughout
The crew who collects your belongings is the same crew who stores and redelivers them. No passing your items between companies, no confusion about what went where.
Getting your things ready for collection day
A bit of preparation before we arrive means your belongings are well protected and easy to find if you need access during storage.
- Put everything in sealed, labelled boxes. If you need a specific item during storage, a clear label means we can find it without unpacking everything.
- Wrap anything fragile in bubble wrap or blankets. Don’t put delicate items loose in a box alongside heavier things.
- Defrost fridges and freezers completely and leave them dry overnight before collection day.
- Dismantle beds, shelving and large furniture where you can. It takes up less space and keeps your weekly rate down.
- Tell us if anything is particularly fragile, valuable or specialist. We’ll bring the right materials on collection day.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 across 1,280+ moves
Storage customers across London, sharing what the experience was actually like.
“Our completion was delayed by six weeks. Just Removals collected everything from the old house, stored it safely, and brought it straight to the new one when we finally got the keys. Completely stress-free.”
“Builders overran by nearly three months. They stored all our furniture without any fuss, no extra charges, and delivered everything back in the same condition it left. Brilliant service.”
“Our chain fell through on completion day. They collected that same afternoon and kept our things safe for five weeks until we exchanged again. Took the stress right off us.”
Storage during a house move: common questions
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