You rent the unit. We do everything else.
We do not run a storage facility, and this page will not pretend otherwise. You rent a unit from the operator of your choice, in your name. We help you pick the right size, move everything in, stack it properly, and bring it all back when you are ready. Storage runs start at £140, and your unit stays yours to visit whenever you like.
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Storage during a move is two bills. Ours is the transport: from £140 for a small run, typically £340 to £510 to move a 2-bed house load into storage, on a published hourly card with no deposit. The unit rent is the operator’s: a 50 sq ft London unit averages roughly £140 to £220 per month at industry rates, depending on the operator and the postcode. The sections below price both halves properly.
Household, business, student, and short-term: four types of storage for whatever life throws at you.
For furniture, belongings, and life between moves
Between properties, renovating, or downsizing: your furniture, appliances and boxes go into a unit you rent in your own name, and we do the lifting at both ends.
Stock, documents, equipment, and office furniture
Stock, archives, office furniture during a refurbishment, or equipment between projects: moved into a unit your business rents, stacked so stock stays reachable.
Summer storage between academic years
Going home for the summer? A room’s worth of boxes, bags and a bike fits a small unit. Book the unit near your term address, then book us to run it in and bring it back.
For an agreed storage period
A gap of a week or three months between moving dates: operators rent on rolling terms, and our runs are booked only when you need them. No storage contract with us at all.
Storage quotes often merge two different bills into one vague number. Here they are separated: what you pay us for transport, and what you pay the operator for the unit.
| Storage job | Crew | Typical time | Typical total |
|---|---|---|---|
| A few items or boxes into a unit nearby | Driver Help | 2 hours (minimum) | £140 |
| Studio or 1-bed load into storage | 2 Men | 2 to 3 hours | £170 to £255 |
| 2-bed house load into storage | 2 Men | 4 to 6 hours | £340 to £510 |
| 3-bed house load into storage | 3 Men | 5 to 7 hours | £500 to £700 |
| Return delivery out of storage | Same crew as the run in | Similar to the run in | Priced the same way: a 2-bed round trip is £680 to £1,020 |
Typical totals from our published hourly card (Driver Help £70, 2 Men £85, 3 Men £100 per hour, 2-hour minimum), checked October 2026. Your written quote confirms the total for your job before you book. Included: loading, unloading and carrying at both ends, stacking the unit so heavy items sit low and things you may need sit near the door, dismantling and reassembly where booked, blankets and straps in transit. Add £5 per floor where the carry is by stairs at the home or the new address; facilities are loaded from the van at the unit door or by trolley and lift.
London self-storage averages, from Self Storage Association UK data reported in October 2026, run at about £98 per month for 25 sq ft, £196 for 50 sq ft and £293 for 75 sq ft including VAT. Published London store prices and guides put a 50 sq ft unit anywhere between about £100 and £220 per month depending on the store’s postcode, with central London at the top.
As a worked illustration: a 2-bed house in a 75 sq ft unit for three months at the industry-average rate is about £880 of rent, plus our transport in and out at £680 to £1,020, plus the operator’s protection charge for the stay. Illustration only: rent at the SSA UK London average reported October 2026; your operator’s quote is the figure that counts.
Compare units like this: use the rate after the introductory offer ends, not the first month (50 percent off the first 8 weeks and £1 first months are the standard hooks, and the full rate is roughly double). Check the billing cycle: four-weekly billing means 13 payments a year. Price the protection on top, because it is a condition of storing, not an option. And ask what a size change or an early exit costs before you sign.
Content updated October 2026. Rent figures: Self Storage Association UK industry data and operator published prices, checked October 2026. Rents are set by each operator and change; get the operator’s own quote for the unit you choose.
The bands below are the same ones our storage calculator uses. Run your own room-by-room list through it, then read our room-by-room storage size guide. For how the bill splits between transport and the facility itself, see storage moving costs.
Locker to small room, about 8 ft high
Holds
Boxes and small items: suitcases, seasonal things, a bike
Best For
Decluttering, student boxes, small stock
5 × 5 ft: a small garden shed
Holds
Studio overflow: a single bed, a dresser, small appliances and boxes
Best For
Studio overflow, office equipment, shop stock
About 5 × 7 ft: a large garden shed
Holds
1-bed flat contents, partial or lightly furnished: mattress, dining set, boxes
Best For
Lightly furnished 1-bed flat, part-loads
10 × 5 ft: a transit van load, or half a single garage
Holds
A 1-bed flat’s full contents: sofa, bed, wardrobe, white goods, boxes
Best For
Full 1-bed flat contents between addresses
7.5 × 10 ft: a Luton van load
Holds
A 2-bed house: two bedrooms of furniture, sofas, white goods, 40 to 60 boxes
Best For
2-bed house contents, the most common move size
10 × 10 ft: a single garage
Holds
A 2 to 3-bed house, with room to stack properly
Best For
Larger family contents you need to reach during storage
About 10 × 20 ft: a double garage
Holds
A large house, or business stock and archives at volume
Best For
Large houses, house contents, business stock
Sizes are floor area at about 8 ft of stacking height, and two homes of the same size hold different amounts: these bands are a planning guide, not a guarantee. If you arrive and the unit is wrong, operators will usually swap you to a bigger or smaller one, on arrival or at the next billing period, so an estimate is not a trap. Decluttering first? What does not go into storage still has to go somewhere: to a person or charity you name, or out through the council’s bulky collection if it is being disposed of.
There are three ways to organise storage during a move. We sell only the transport in the first one, which is exactly why this comparison is written straight.
Most storage damage is decided before the van is loaded: damp, mould and squashed boxes all start at the packing stage. An hour of preparation protects everything for the whole stay. And declutter first: storage is priced by the month, so everything you store is something you pay for every month it sits there.
Anything that goes in damp comes out mouldy, and mould spreads to neighbouring boxes. Wipe down furniture, empty and clean bins and garden tools, and let soft furnishings dry fully before they are wrapped.
Defrost at least a day ahead, drain and dry the inside, then wedge the door slightly ajar for the whole stay. A sealed, damp fridge is the single most common storage write-off.
Run the drain cycle, empty the hoses and leave the door and detergent drawer open to dry. Transport bolts, if you kept them, stop the drum moving on the journey.
Use proper furniture covers or blankets that let air move. Plastic sealed tight around wood or leather for months traps condensation against the surface: fine for a short move, wrong for storage.
Paper and electronics hate humidity and floor-level cold. Seal them in sturdy boxes, stack them on top of furniture rather than on the unit floor, and keep them away from the door where weather gets in.
Number every box, write the contents on two sides, and photograph the list and the loaded unit. Three months later, that photo is the difference between finding the winter coats and unloading half the unit.
And one hard rule: facilities will not accept perishable food, fuel, gas bottles, paints and solvents, or anything damp or infested. Check the prohibited list in your storage agreement before moving day, not at the unit door.
The facility is the operator’s side of the arrangement, and the differences between operators are where stays go wrong. Four checks before you sign with anyone.
CCTV, alarms, gated entry and your own padlock are the operator’s side of the deal. Compare what each facility actually offers, not what its homepage implies, before you sign.
Some facilities are staffed-hours only; others offer extended or 24-hour access, sometimes at a higher rent. If you will visit often, access hours matter more than a small rent difference.
Every operator requires contents protection priced on the replacement value of what you store. It is not optional and it is rarely in the headline rent, so price it before you compare units. As operator examples (operator published figures, October 2026), Big Yellow’s cover starts from £6.25 per week for £4,000 of cover and Access from £5.77 per week.
Ask whether billing is monthly or four-weekly (13 payments a year), what notice ending the agreement needs, and what a size change costs. These three answers decide the real price of a stay.
We are paid for transport, not for rent. That one fact shapes every answer on this page.
Because the unit is yours, you can visit it whenever your operator allows, and add or take out items yourself between our runs. Container storage with a removals firm cannot offer that.
There is no storage contract with us. You book a run in when you move in, and a run out when you are ready, each priced on the published card with no deposit.
We collect from your current address, load and stack the unit, and deliver everything to your new address when the stay ends. No van hire, no lifting, no second hire to undo it.
We are paid for transport, not rent, so our size advice has no angle: the smallest unit that holds your things safely is the one we will recommend.
Heavy items low, fragile items high and marked, an aisle kept where the unit allows, and the things you may need near the door. A unit stacked well comes out in the condition it went in.
We collect and deliver anywhere in London, to any operator’s facility: near the home you are leaving, the one you are moving to, or the office in between.
Four straightforward steps, from choosing your unit to moving out when you are ready.
Tell us what you need to store and we will recommend the size, using the same guide as this page and the storage calculator.
Then you book the unit in your own name, with the operator you choose. Visit it first if you want to: the contract, the key and the access are yours from day one.
Our crew collects from your address, loads the van with blankets and straps, and drives to your facility.
Tell us the floors at home and where the unit sits in the facility (ground floor, lift, trolley distance), and both are priced into the written quote.
Heavy items low, fragile items high and marked, an aisle kept where the size allows, and anything you may need placed near the door.
The unit stays yours throughout: visit whenever your operator allows, and add or remove items yourself between our runs.
When the new place is ready, we collect from the unit and deliver to the new address, unloading into the right rooms.
The return run is priced the same way as the run in. Your operator’s notice period for ending the unit is separate, so check it before you book us.
| Point of comparison | The typical way | With Vano Removals |
|---|---|---|
| Who you rent from | A removals firm’s own warehouse: your goods are sealed in containers you cannot visit, and the rent runs per container per week for as long as they hold them | A self-storage operator of your choice, in your name: you hold the key, and you can visit, add or remove items whenever the operator allows |
| Getting there | With self-storage alone, the transport is your problem: a hired van, your own lifting, and a second hire to get everything back | Our crew collects, loads, stacks the unit and, when you are ready, brings everything back and unloads it at the new address |
| The price | A storage price quoted on its own, with transport, protection and the return trip appearing later, if they are quoted at all | Two bills, separated on this page: our transport as a worked total in a written quote, and the operator’s rent at the rate you agree with them |
| Deposit and cancellation | Storage contracts and removal bookings commonly ask for payment or a deposit up front | No deposit to book our transport. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before |
| If your dates move | Container storage charges by the week regardless; unit contracts bill by their cycle | Our runs are booked when you need them. What your operator charges for extra time is in your agreement with them, and we will tell you to check it before you book us |
Based on the published storage services and terms of London removals firms and self-storage operators, checked October 2026.
Common questions about storage. If you do not see yours, call us We are happy to help.
Tell us what you need to store and we will recommend the right unit size and give you a written quote for the transport, with the total itemised. No deposit, and free cancellation up to 24 hours before the run.
Or email info@vanoremovals.co.uk
Confirm the facility's access hours, entry arrangements, vehicle size limits and loading point before booking. Tell us whether collection, delivery, or both are needed, and how items will reach the unit.
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Ahmer Faiz, Founder, Vano Removals
Ahmer runs the small London crew that carries out every Vano move, sets the published hourly rates on this website, and replies to every Google review personally. Every guide on this site is written from the moves the team actually does, and checked against the council and TfL pages it quotes.
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