Need To Rent Storage In The Southern Highlands? Choose Self Storage Built Like A Fort

Your Self Storage in The Southern Highlands

Need to rent a storage garage in the Southern Highlands? There are a variety of storage solutions available if you need to find a convenient place outside of your home to store household items, a motor vehicle, or provide a safe place for business inventory. But not all self storage units that service the area around Mittagong, Bowral and Moss Vale are built the same. When comparing self storage facilities don’t just compare price also evaluate the quality. It is one of the key things to help when choosing self storage.

At Tankar Self Storage Centre the storage units are built from the same materials used to construct a house. Each storage garage has an insulated roof, concrete masonry brick walls, an individual concrete floor and a metal roller door. The superior building materials not only ensure the storage units are structurally sound, but the construction ensures that the contents are kept at an even ambient temperature regardless of the Southern Highlands weather conditions. The additional protection of seamless roof guttering and fascia ensures that rainwater does not drip down the front of the unit doors.

So why are the construction materials so important to ensure your things in self storage are kept secure, clean and dry?

1. concrete

Remember the childhood fable The Three Little Pigs who built a house from three different materials? A Big Bad Wolf blows down the first two pigs' houses, made of straw and sticks, but is unable to destroy the third pig's house, made of bricks. Our decision to build from concrete brick masonry means that even in the harshest weather conditions the units stand solid. We often refer to our self storage units as a fort or a concrete bunker!

The concrete walls extend to the floor with each storage unit having an individual concrete floor. Why is this important? Laying concrete floors individual to each unit mean that if there is any liquid spilt it will not flow through and affect adjoining units. The units can also be easily washed out.

2. insulation

Insulation reduces unwanted heat loss or gain. Think about how important insulation is in your home to stay warm in winter and cool in summer. Most storage units are built like garden sheds, made from tin, and are not insulated. This means your things will heat up too! Garden sheds are fine to store a lawn mower, garden tools and equipment but not ideal to keep valuable household furniture, upholstered items and mattresses clean and dry. At Tankar Self Storage Centre every self storage unit is insulated. The roof is insulated and the concrete masonry walls are insulated with a secondary layer of concrete.

3. ROLLER DOOR

A quality metal roller door protects from the weather and provides security. A roller door that has a rubber weather strip attached to either side of the door, plus at the base of the door, is better suited to protect your goods and helps reduce dust from entering inside the unit.

Follow these tips when evaluating a storage unit roller door:  

• Push up the roller door to just above head height

• Check the roller door has a strap or rope to pull it down

• The roller door should slide easily up and down

• Look to see that the weather strips are well maintained

EXPERT TIP: Buy a step stool and keep it at the front of your unit if you need help to reach the door.

Secure slide latch into concrete.

4. latch and lock

In addition to the roller door, a sturdy slide latch that locks into concrete brickwork is more secure and less able to be pried open than units made of tin.

To best protect your things in storage:

• The sliding latch should be free from rust and damage

• Use a quality padlock to lock the roller door

• Don’t give your padlock key to anyone that you wouldn’t give the key to your house!

EXPERT TIP: Barrel padlocks that are rust resistant and designed for the outdoors are the best choice to secure garage units.

Built solid. Tankar Self Storage is built with the same materials as a house.

5. EXTRA PROTECTION

Look at the storage facility like if you were looking at a house. A good time to view outdoor storage units is when it is raining. Observe how the water runs off the roof and follow its path. The continuous gutter and regular downpipes along Tankar Self Storage units ensure that water drains away efficiently. Remember water will always find it’s natural path and you don’t want it to find it’s way into your unit if there is not suitable drainage.

Look to see if water pools in the front of the units. A gravel driveway will always create potholes that fill with water. The inconvenience of stepping over a puddle to pack into storage is not ideal. The wide concrete driveways at each location of Tankar Self Storage makes moving in and out of storage super easy.

EXPERT TIP: Cover your boxes and furnishings with a plastic drop cloth to ensure any airborne dust will settle on it and not on your boxes or furnishings.

Need space? For affordable storage solutions in the Southern Highlands contact us. We talk to our customers like friends and want to find the best size space for their needs whether it be for personal storage, business storage or car storage. For more expert storage tips and to save you time and money, receive our Ultimate Guide To Packing Like A Pro.

If you value your things store them in a quality storage garage. Not a storage shed.