Furniture Storage in Spain

This is a warehouse fitted out to store furniture and belongings that are stored in deposits or containers of different materials and sizes. Normally, the storage rental service involves the handling of these belongings; in other words, a move destined for the furniture storage, which, as a general rule, is usually temporary, sometimes due to building work, other times because of a delay in the delivery of the property to which we are moving, an inheritance, a divorce, etc.

There is also the modality of storage rooms or mini-storage rooms, whose fundamental difference is that this service does not necessarily entail a move and, in addition, the user has greater freedom of access to the stored goods, as it normally does not involve handling by operators and the user is free to open his or her own individual container.

It could be said that it is a service that can replace conventional storage rooms in private homes.

And for companies, self-employed or entities that need greater storage capacity, we have other alternatives such as metal containers, warehouses with or without shelves, etc.. We carry out studies and projects according to your needs.

The most common situations to hire a furniture storage company are:

• When a work or reform is going to be carried out, either in a private home or in a company and it is necessary to remove furniture and/or belongings during the period that the work to be carried out lasts.
• In the event of a move in which it is used to store belongings that are not necessary or that, simply, are no longer used daily but we do not want to throw away either. Also in case we have to leave the home of origin and the destination is not yet ready due to lack of any supply or pending work. Generally, in large removals we will always find the removal and storage duo.
• In claims related to insurance companies, such as incidents due to humidity or damaged pipes, in which it is necessary to free up space for a while in order to solve the fault.
• In cases of family inheritances in which it takes time to award the assets to several heirs or other cases that require an indeterminate period of resolution.
• In divorces, while the spouses resolve their separation situation and it is determined what each party will keep.
• Some collectors and celebrities are also clients of this type of furniture storage containers, since they have large collections of trophies and other belongings that no longer fit in their homes.
• For companies that need to store certain materials.
• In any other case in which it is required to keep furniture in a storage room for periods of more than one month.

In summary, to store your belongings, so it is important that you take into account what each furniture storage service company offers you and aspects such as whether they have 24-hour surveillance or there are certain safety and hygiene measures.

We also leave you here some tips for removals and deposits in furniture storage.

An expert from the company studies and measures the items to be packed for storage. Subsequently, an inventory is drawn up showing all the items to be stored. After packing and loading in special wooden containers previously treated with an antibacterial and insecticide system, they are hermetically sealed in the presence of the client.

Once the containers are transferred to GIL STAUFFER‘s warehouses, they will be stored using non-polluting vehicles and forklifts. No other hand will touch the container until the customer requests it again. When this happens, the process is repeated again in reverse, moving the container to your home, and performing the opening and unpacking in your presence.

In this way, minimal handling of the objects is guaranteed, with a consequent reduction in the risk of damage.

In any case, the first step is to carry out a cubing by an expert who can provide an estimate with all the aspects to be taken into account. Then, the date of collection will be set and the operators will pack everything in special containers for this service. These containers will be sealed and transported to the storage warehouses until the client requests their reopening.

A furniture storage unit has several possible uses:

1. As an intermediate step in a move, while finishing works or bureaucratic procedures to be able to enter the destination address.
2. As a deposit of goods that for various reasons are going to be stored for a certain period of time. For example, due to inheritance procedures, a divorce, professional changes to another city, etc.
3. As a cubicle for personal belongings that take up a lot of space and are not needed in the home, such as furniture that is no longer in use or various objects such as artists’ trophies, sports equipment, etc.

The needs may vary depending on whether you are an individual or a company.

The furniture storage warehouses can offer a furniture storage service as such, as well as a storage room service, but, as in our case, they can also offer other types of storage and safekeeping services.

In principle, the main difference is that the storage room service implies greater autonomy. Here it is not necessary that any expert comes to the home to measure and study the goods to be stored, but it will be the own user client of the storage room who, once the relevant contract is formalized, goes to the warehouses with his belongings to store them in his contracted storage room. But this will be done by his own means.

It is not necessary to have the company’s manpower to store the belongings. Thus, the client will be able to go to his storage room as many times as he needs it, but always within the established schedule. That is to say, it is as if he rented a room or storage room to the use, of the common ones that exist in the first floor of the buildings and, in this case, the manipulation will be on behalf of the client. For this reason, these storage rooms are also called mini-warehouses.

To choose a reliable storage company you should look at several factors listed below:

• You should make sure you know where your goods are stored.
• Make sure that the storage company has constant surveillance.
• That there is insurance in case there are any unforeseen events.
• You must know how your furniture will be stored, if they have pest control, temperature controls, etc.
• You must be sure that you are dealing with a registered and official moving and storage company.
• Remember to look at the reviews and comments but do not give them maximum importance, as there are usually many false opinions.
• Look for a company that has been in business for many years.

At Gil Stauffer we have been moving and storing the belongings of hundreds of thousands of Spaniards for over 100 years.