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Welcome to the Arden Self Storage news page. Here you will find all the latest news form the company as well as storage news in general. Remember to keep checking back to the site because we will be doing promotional offers at some point.

The Advantages of Month-to-Month Self Storage Options

Whether you’re relocating, downsizing, or simply having a clear out of your home, self-storage can provide a convenient, secure solution to keep your belongings safe and out of the way during the transition. Here at Arden Self Storage in Birmingham, we pride ourselves on offering practical, flexible options to meet a variety of our customers’… Continue reading The Advantages of Month-to-Month Self Storage Options

5 Eco-Friendly Packaging Options for Sustainable Businesses

As sustainability becomes a growing priority for businesses and consumers, many companies are rethinking their approach to packaging. Whether you’re a small business or a large enterprise, adopting eco-friendly packaging solutions is an excellent way to reduce your environmental footprint while aligning with consumer demand for greener products. At Arden Self Storage, we understand the… Continue reading 5 Eco-Friendly Packaging Options for Sustainable Businesses

Finding the Best Self Storage Solutions for Small Businesses in Birmingham

Running a small business comes with its own set of challenges, and managing space efficiently is often one of the biggest. Whether you’re a start-up bursting at the seams, an e-commerce business needing extra storage, or a service provider requiring a secure place for your tools and equipment, finding the right storage solution can make… Continue reading Finding the Best Self Storage Solutions for Small Businesses in Birmingham

Packaging Tips for Long-Term Storage: What You Need to Know

When it comes to long-term storage, proper packaging is crucial to ensure your belongings remain in pristine condition. At Arden Self Storage in Birmingham, we understand the importance of safeguarding your items, whether they’re heirlooms, seasonal decorations, or important documents. Below, we take a look at some expert packaging tips to help you prepare for… Continue reading Packaging Tips for Long-Term Storage: What You Need to Know

Decluttering Your Home: How Domestic Storage Can Help

With such busy lives, our homes can often become a repository for clutter – items we don’t necessarily need but can’t bear to part with. This accumulation not only creates physical chaos but can also impact our mental well-being. Decluttering your home is essential for creating a calm (and functional!) living environment, and domestic storage… Continue reading Decluttering Your Home: How Domestic Storage Can Help

The Safest Way to Store Photographs and Documents

Whether they’re cherished family photos, important business documents, or treasured letters from loved ones, preserving the quality and integrity of your photographs and documents is important to most people. Over time, environmental factors such as light, heat, and humidity can cause irreversible damage. One of the safest ways to store photographs and documents is by… Continue reading The Safest Way to Store Photographs and Documents

How To Manage Space During Business Expansion

Expanding your business is an exciting milestone, but it often comes with a long list of challenges including the increased need for space. This is where storage units can help. Self storage units are an unsung hero when it comes to helping manage space during business expansions as they offer an immediate, flexible and cost-effective… Continue reading How To Manage Space During Business Expansion

Do I Need a Climate Controlled Storage Unit?

Climate controlled storage units are often crucial for those looking to preserve the integrity of their belongings over time. Unlike standard storage options, climate controlled units maintain a consistent temperature and humidity level, protecting sensitive items from extreme weather conditions, moisture, and other environmental factors that can cause damage. Whether you’re storing antiques, important documents,… Continue reading Do I Need a Climate Controlled Storage Unit?

How Self Storage Can Streamline Your Birmingham Relocation

Are you relocating within or to Birmingham? Whether you are moving to a new home or a new office, it can be an overwhelming experience. However, with strategy and resources, you can make the process of moving easier and less stressful. One valuable resource that can help to streamline your Birmingham relocation is self storage.… Continue reading How Self Storage Can Streamline Your Birmingham Relocation

How Self Storage Can Benefit Small Business Owners

As a small business owner, it can be challenging to manage your inventory, equipment, and workspace all in one place. And let’s be honest, sometimes it’s hard to keep things clean and organised when you’re limited on space. But fear not, that’s where self storage comes in to save the day. With self storage units,… Continue reading How Self Storage Can Benefit Small Business Owners

5 Ways Storage Units Can Help With Your Spring Clean

It is that time of the year again, the spring clean! It can be hard to find the motivation to clean, organise and declutter your home, especially considering the busy lives we lead. With spring cleaning being a traditional annual practice, it can give you that boost of motivation you need to organise your home.… Continue reading 5 Ways Storage Units Can Help With Your Spring Clean

How Self Storage Can Help Achieve New Year’s Resolutions

Every year people set New Year’s resolutions and every year people give up within the first 2 weeks of January. Arden Self Storage is here to help you achieve your 2023 New Year’s resolutions. Whether you are looking to start a new business, move home, get fit or get organised, our self storage units can… Continue reading How Self Storage Can Help Achieve New Year’s Resolutions

How To Store Your Christmas Tree

Many of us choose to invest in a good quality artificial Christmas tree rather than having to purchase a real tree every Christmas. To make the most out of this investment, you have to take care of it. Unless you like to celebrate Christmas all year round, it is likely it will be in storage… Continue reading How To Store Your Christmas Tree

How are solar panels good for the environment?

If you have read our previous blog on the advantages of solar panels for business, you will know that here at Arden Self Storage, we employ the use of solar panels. Our previous blog discussed the advantages of solar panels for businesses and how we use them to reduce our impact on the environment. This… Continue reading How are solar panels good for the environment?

How Self Storage Units Can Help When Downsizing

Most people will come to a point in their life where they are thinking about downsizing. There are many reasons as to why people think about downsizing, and as with any move, it can be a very stressful and tiring process. Whatever your reason, self storage units are a fantastic way to help minimise the… Continue reading How Self Storage Units Can Help When Downsizing

Guide to Container Hire

From our base in Solihull, we provide a complete range of storage containers available for hire for customers across the West Midlands. A storage or shipping container is a cost-effective and popular option as it provides ample space, ideal for multiple purposes and industries such as construction, education and sports equipment, factories, businesses, and households.… Continue reading Guide to Container Hire

Why Self-Storage is Useful When Moving to a New Home

Moving to a new house has the potential to be a stressful experience, with there being so many different moving parts. One of the things that new homeowners have to deal with is the storage and transfer of their belongings. The question is often raised about whether self storage or removal service is more useful.… Continue reading Why Self-Storage is Useful When Moving to a New Home

10 Questions To Ask Before Using A Self Storage Unit

When searching for self-storage, there are lots of questions that need to be answered first. In today’s blog, we’re going to take you through all the different questions that you can ask a self-storage company to ensure a smooth experience when thinking about putting your belongings into self-storage. What to ask before using a… Continue reading 10 Questions To Ask Before Using A Self Storage Unit

What Items Require Climate Controlled Storage?

Across the country and beyond, lots of storage companies offer climate-controlled storage units, also known as temperature-controlled storage. This type of storage unit is ideal for certain items that you’d like to store, or if you’re planning to store items for a long period of time. Lots can happen to items in storage if they’re… Continue reading What Items Require Climate Controlled Storage?

7 Innovative Ways To Increase Storage Space In Your Home

Our house can very quickly, and very easily, become cluttered. It’s so tempting to get carried away buying home decor, new clothes, shoes and other bits and bobs. If you’ve streamlined your possessions as much as you possibly can and are still struggling to find space in your home, then try these innovative ideas. … Continue reading 7 Innovative Ways To Increase Storage Space In Your Home

4 Tips For Storing Clothes Long Term

Is your wardrobe overflowing with clothes? Are you finding that you don’t have enough space to put everything? No judgement here. We’ve all been there and at one point or another and have been guilty of owning too many clothes, or not having enough storage space in our home to fit it all. One clever… Continue reading 4 Tips For Storing Clothes Long Term

Preparing to Move Overseas

One of the most exciting, scary but incredibly thrilling steps you can take in life is to move overseas. It’s a gamble; you don’t know what your life will look like. Will you like it? Where will you shop? What will you eat? Where will you spend your time and what will you be doing? … Continue reading Preparing to Move Overseas

Declutter Your Home With 4 Easy Tips

There is no better feeling than decluttering an untidy and messy home environment. Whether it’s a room you hardly use that somehow has gathered so many things or a cupboard that you just ‘dump’ stuff inside. Or, perhaps, that pile of DVDs that you never watch anymore (thank you, online streaming services!) are staring at… Continue reading Declutter Your Home With 4 Easy Tips

How To Hide Christmas Gifts, Creatively

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas! We’re two weekends away from the most wonderful time of the year. December is a time for making new memories with family and friends, eating delicious food and sharing presents with the ones we love. But, hiding Christmas presents can be tricky, especially from young, curious and… Continue reading How To Hide Christmas Gifts, Creatively

How to Store Your Comic Books

Superheroes would be pretty lame without their superpowers. You don’t have to be a superhero to appreciate comic books and want to collect or preserve these graphic book stories from your childhood. Marvel and DC are the big players in this industry, closely followed by Dark Horse Comics. We all know and love the characters,… Continue reading How to Store Your Comic Books

Self Storage Tips: The Dos and Don’ts

Self-storage, both short and long term, is a great way to house belongings during a period of transition or to simply free up some space in your home. But when it comes to doing it right, it turns out that figuring out how to pack a storage unit is only part of the battle. To… Continue reading Self Storage Tips: The Dos and Don’ts

Moving into a Care Home? Top Storage Tips

For people that are preparing for a move into a care home, you may be in need of some storage advice. It can be a confusing, difficult, stressful and emotional time for everyone involved in the move and transition. When supporting or moving an elderly relative into a care home, there are several things to… Continue reading Moving into a Care Home? Top Storage Tips

Space Saving Storage Hacks for Your Home

We all want our houses to work practically and suit our lifestyle, one of the ways we can keep our space tidy is by getting creative and utilising some unconventional storage hacks. Whether you’re looking for a little more room in your home, or perhaps you’d like to be more efficient with your current use… Continue reading Space Saving Storage Hacks for Your Home

What Are Storage Auctions?

Sometimes, but very rarely, a storage unit is left unclaimed or a customer defaults on their payments. When this happens, every effort is made to sort the situation, however, as a final resort, the storage unit is then offered to the highest bidder via a storage auction. From popular TV shows and movies, we envisage… Continue reading What Are Storage Auctions?

5 Tips for Better Home Office Organisation

With many of us now working at home in our dining rooms, kitchens, conservatories or living rooms the divide between home and work is slightly blurred with less of a divide between the two. Some of the working population have home offices already set up in their home, but if you’re like me, then the… Continue reading 5 Tips for Better Home Office Organisation

Deep Cleaning and House Organisation Tips During Lockdown

With all of us staying at home during the Coronavirus lockdown, now more than ever before, we are getting out the cleaning gloves and having a thorough and deep house clean. Some of us have been staring at the copious clothes bursting out of the seams of our wardrobe, making plans to organise it. While… Continue reading Deep Cleaning and House Organisation Tips During Lockdown

5 Tips for Student Summer Storage

Need student summer storage, but don’t know what to do next? Don’t worry, read our 5-step student summer storage advice guide. When you’re a student, you often have a variety of household items that you accumulate from moving into halls of residence then into a house. But, in between university terms, and especially during the… Continue reading 5 Tips for Student Summer Storage

Household Storage: How to Store Furniture Correctly

When putting furniture into storage, one of the first things to consider is how to protect it. No matter what the item, whether it’s a sofa, table or cabinet, it is integral that you take a few additional steps before placing it into a storage unit – especially if it’s going to be in there… Continue reading Household Storage: How to Store Furniture Correctly

8 Tips For Taking Your Car Out of Winter Storage

Is your car locked safely away in a storage unit? There are not many months left to go until Summer is upon us again, which is great news for car lovers who have been keeping their pride and joy locked up in a secure storage unit all winter. As summer approaches, the time has come… Continue reading 8 Tips For Taking Your Car Out of Winter Storage

Living on a Houseboat – Here’s How to Solve Your Storage Problem

Storage space on a houseboat is understandably limited. A houseboat, otherwise known as a barge canal boat, is a narrow boat that is often used for leisure or living purposes. As the boats are long and thin, there is typically only space for your most essential household and personal items on board. These items can… Continue reading Living on a Houseboat – Here’s How to Solve Your Storage Problem

Reasons To Use Seasonal Self Storage at Christmas

All across the country, families and individuals are preparing for Christmas. It may only be one day, but it’s a special and busy 24 hours. A day jam packed with delicious food and drink, annual family traditions, board games, watching films and tv shows whilst lazily lounging on the sofa post-Christmas dinner. Amongst all the… Continue reading Reasons To Use Seasonal Self Storage at Christmas

How Self Storage Can Help When Moving House

Moving house is stressful. There are so many things to think about, so much to do, plan and prepare for. However, using a self storage unit can make this process a little easier, and far more efficient! Here are our top reasons why using a self storage unit when moving house can drastically help you… Continue reading How Self Storage Can Help When Moving House

5 Reasons To Use a Self Storage Unit

There are plenty of reasons that people to decide to make the most of a self storage unit, whether they have simply run out of space, need a stop gap when moving house, or even for their seasonal equipment. It’s a great way to keep belongings out the way, but safe and secure, without needing… Continue reading 5 Reasons To Use a Self Storage Unit

The Service Provided Was Excellent

Hi Simon, Thanks for your help when storing our belongings during our house move. You were more than helpful and I would not hesitate in using you again or recommending you to friends and family. The service Simon & Ian provided was excellent. Regards Jayne & Mike

Three Top Self Storage Packing Tips

Making the most out of your self storage unit is all about efficiency and in order to do this, you need to utilise the space correctly. Here at Arden Self Storage Limited, we are self storage experts thanks to our environmentally-friendly self storage facility in Solihull. In light of this, here are our essential self… Continue reading Three Top Self Storage Packing Tips

Making the Most of Seasonal Storage

Seasonal items take up a lot of space in our homes and, when you stop to think about it, this doesn’t make much sense – they are only required for certain times during the year, so why not put them away the rest of the time?

The Benefits of Commercial Storage for Birmingham Businesses

Commercial storage is becoming an increasingly popular choice for businesses, especially those in large cities such as Birmingham. There are many benefits to a storage facility that can help businesses circumnavigate the challenges that come of working in the city, so Arden Self Storage Limited help you understand why this would benefit you. Cost As… Continue reading The Benefits of Commercial Storage for Birmingham Businesses

Here’s How Self Storage Can Benefit Students

As we enter the beginning of another academic year, students all across the country and making their way to new accommodation. Whether this is your first year, or you are returning from the summer break, this can present many issues with space and storage. Self storage can help you combat these issues, so Arden Self… Continue reading Here’s How Self Storage Can Benefit Students

What to Look For in a Self Storage Facility

There are some purchases and/or financial commitments that require more thought and consideration than others, and we believe choosing the right self storage facility for you is one of them. It may seem unnecessary, but the right self storage unit is essential as this is the place that will be keeping your belongings safe and… Continue reading What to Look For in a Self Storage Facility

Spring Cleaning Tips

Spring has well and truly sprung, which means it’s time to break out the Marigolds and perform a deep clean of your home. A spring clean is incredibly important for preparing your home the upcoming summer and matching your new, airy space with the improved weather.

The Advantages of Solar Power for Businesses

Introducing solar energy to your businesses can pose a variety of both advantages and disadvantages that cover a host of different factors for your consideration. Here at Arden Self Storage, we employ the use of solar panels in order to reap the rewards they provide, and reduce our impact on the environment. In this blog… Continue reading The Advantages of Solar Power for Businesses

Top 3 Reasons to Move to Birmingham

Birmingham is the second largest city in the UK, with it becoming increasingly popular to relocate from the capital to the ‘city of a thousand trades’ (as it was formerly known). But, you might be wondering why people – especially young professionals – are deciding to move to Birmingham. At Arden Self Storage, we are… Continue reading Top 3 Reasons to Move to Birmingham

Moving Tips to Help You With a Change of Home

We all know that moving can be stressful, and with all the moving parts it’s easy to forget important things. Thankfully, Arden Self Storage are here to offer you some essential moving tips to help ensure your move runs smoothly. Streamline Even if you’re upsizing, moving is a great opportunity to streamline your possessions. It’s… Continue reading Moving Tips to Help You With a Change of Home

The Benefits of Business Storage

Business storage is widely applicable for a variety of different, commercial predicaments that thousands of businesses are facing as we speak. This starts everywhere from an entrepreneur starting their first venture, to a rapidly growing business outgrowing their current property. Storage is a vast industry, especially in the US and Australia, and is beginning to… Continue reading The Benefits of Business Storage

History of the Self Storage Facility

With the popularity of self storage today, it can be easy to assume that this industry has been around forever. As a matter of fact, you wouldn’t be that far off, but it’s still important to appreciate the history of everything – especially the self storage facility – and it might even be a little… Continue reading History of the Self Storage Facility

How to Make the Most of Your Storage Unit

This latest informational article from the guys at Arden Self Storage explains how you can make the most of your storage space by packing effectively.

Just a word of thanks…

Just a word of thanks Simon, Linda was very pleased with the M&S voucher. Our experience with Arden Self Storage and in particular with yourself has been very good indeed. Needless to say the good word will be passed on. We wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas. Kind regards Peter & Linda

Your one of the best

Thank you so much for all your kind help your one of the best. See you again. Gail & Steve Taylor

Flexible and friendly service

As a customer or Arden Self Storage for two years I am reluctant to take my storage needs elsewhere. They have provided an efficient, professional, safe flexible and friendly service to me which will be hard to match when I relocate to the south of England. My goods were kept dry and safe and in… Continue reading Flexible and friendly service

Excellent customer service

We wanted to say thank you to Arden Self Storage for being a pleasure to deal with. From renting 1 unit from you in preparation for our house move. We were so impressed we rented a second. You provided us with excellent customer service & your storage units are exceptional clean, secure & great value… Continue reading Excellent customer service

Have already recommended you

I recently had need to use your facilities as when moving house there was a short gap between leaving the one and moving in the other.’Helpful’ does not quite cover the service I received from everyone at Arden Self Storage. Nothing appears to be too much trouble and I was even lent a sack truck… Continue reading Have already recommended you

Great service

I would like to say that we have been extremely happy with the facilities and service provided by you. It has been trouble-free, the building is easily accessible and clean and it has been very useful being able to buy boxes from the office. We would have no reservations whatsoever about recommending you to other… Continue reading Great service

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