How we run this job
Closings do not line up. You sell on the twelfth and buy on the twenty-eighth, and the sixteen days in between have to happen somewhere. Renting a self-storage unit means loading a truck, unloading into the unit, reloading later, and unloading again — four handlings of the same couch. Storage-in-transit means two.
Your load goes into wooden vaults at our warehouse, inventoried and numbered as it comes off the truck. The vaults are sealed, stacked, and not opened again until delivery day, which is the part self-storage cannot match: nobody walks past your furniture, nobody shares a hallway with it, and there is no roll-up door with a padlock as the only barrier.
The warehouse is climate-controlled, which matters more in Colorado than people expect. A metal unit in Aurora swings from below freezing in January to well past a hundred degrees in an August afternoon, and that cycle is what warps solid-wood tables, cracks veneers, and delaminates particleboard. Electronics and anything with adhesive in it take the same abuse.
Delivery works like the original move in reverse, usually with the same crew, because they already know how the pieces come apart. Give us three business days notice and we will schedule the out-load. If your new date slips again, the vaults simply stay sealed and you pay for another month — there is no penalty for a timeline that moved on you.
What it costs
Monthly vault rate plus one handling fee; no charge for the first seven days. Pads, shrink wrap, dollies, floor runners, and standard disassembly and reassembly are part of the rate. The travel fee is a single flat charge quoted before you book, and nothing is added after the job.
Common questions
From a few days to a year. Billing is monthly with the first seven days included, so a short gap between closings often costs nothing beyond the handling fee. Longer stays are prorated by the month, not by the day.
Yes, though it means opening and resealing a vault, so there is a retrieval fee and we need a few days notice. If you know in advance that specific items will be needed early, tell the crew at load-in and we will vault them last.
It is. The warehouse holds a stable temperature and humidity year-round, which protects wood furniture, instruments, artwork, and electronics from the freeze-to-bake cycle a standard metal unit puts them through in Colorado.