Alfred Chow - Maker of ThingsMar 5

I have a question about our 'moving house' plans, and I would welcome some thoughts about it.

We have a lot of stuff to get rid of, but also a lot of stuff, (furniture, workshop machines, steel and timber stock, heavy equipment, etc.) that will need to move with us.

My thoughts were to somehow find a local place that has shipping container storage, move it all there while clearing the house, and then move the shipping container when we know where we have moved to.

I don't know if there is such an option locally, at both ends.

I'd appreciate any ideas as to how to do this, or if you have companies that you are aware of that would work like this.

We are in the Greater Manchester are of the UK and moving to rural Wales.

Thank you.

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Show threadMichael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂMar 5

@Maker_of_Things Sorry, can't answer the materials storage question but I just popped along to say: you will have FAR MORE stuff than you can possibly imagine.

We moved out for renovations. Put everything into storage and took essentials with us in a small rental van. Of course the work took much longer than anticipated and when we finally moved back in, a long time later, we hadn’t missed any of the stuff in storage. I would have been very happy had it been stolen.

Show threadAlfred Chow - Maker of ThingsMar 5

@baoigheallain
Yeah, it really is going to be that 'You have no idea!' thing as we get to that stage.

We are being brutal in getting rid in advance.
Even my workshop is going to get reduced, when we come to it. One room at a time right now.

I reckon there is so much stuff, still, that we will want to take that we wouldn't miss if it was lost in storage.

Show threadMichael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ

@Maker_of_Things We took bags and bags of stuff to charity. Then put stuff in storage.

Because we hadn't missed any of the stored stuff, we did a ruthless cull before moving it back. That involved even more bags and bags going to charity.

Books, LPs and CDs take enormous numbers of boxes.

Good luck.

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Show threadAlfred Chow - Maker of ThingsMar 5

@baoigheallain
Thank you.

The local charity shops are getting inundated by us so we have to slow down a bit.
The tip is also 52 trips a year, so we need to be careful there too.

There are 300+ VHS films that we are tipping at the moment, and also putting stuff aside for car boot season.

No end of tools and trade stuff have gone to Tools With A Mission, and we still have a dozens of power tools.

I probably have the best part of half a ton of copper cables to strip before weighing in as scrap!