Let a Moving Storage Company Make Life Easier During Remodeling

Written by: joe.moesier
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We just underwent a big renovation project on our row house downtown. We initially hoped to begin the project two years before it actually was able to start. The city permit process took a lot longer than we originally anticipated and was quite the adventure in itself. After our proposal and plans were finally approved and the permits awarded, our contractors were scheduled to begin the end of January. We were bumping out the back of the house on three levels. The process would involve demolishing parts of the back of the hundred year old house, as well as digging out for additional basement space. All I knew is that it was going to be messy. We had to seal off the rooms at the back of the house. The rooms on the other side of that were being remodeled. A moving storage container was our best option to house the belongings from those spaces. I wish we would have just moved all our things out and into storage. Everything was covered in dust for months and months.
We rented one of those outdoor moving storage boxes. It was brought to our door. It was a big metal thing they moved around with this wheeled contraption. We slowly moved everything from the rooms in the construction zone to the storage container. Our original plan was to leave it in the yard until the project was finished, but it became apparent that it would have to move. The contractors filled up our tiny yard with debris and equipment pretty fast. We were sad, because we looked forward to just being able to dust that thing off, open the door and unload our belongings back into the house when it was finished. The moving storage company was so very helpful, in spite of our reluctance. Our storage pod was scheduled for a pick up less than 24 hours away.
Once the moving storage people put our container in their warehouse, we figured we would not be able to get in it until they delivered it back to our house. Much to our delight, we were able to get in there by calling 24 hours in advance. Our storage box was in an air conditioned and heated secure building at the moving storage facility. The key to our box was in our hands too. Given that we did not pack things that well, since we thought the storage box was going to live in the backyard, we were able to repack a few things and remove some items.
It is a very good thing our stuff was securely stowed at a moving storage place. Just like the remodeling magazines warn you about, our builders finally finished more than 5 months later than they thought they would. It was hectic enough to just get settled back into the house. So we dreaded the idea of having to make time for moving our storage box back home. Those moving storage people took the burden off us, once again. We called and had that thing delivered within a day. We were anxious to get our yard back to normal, so hoped that steel container did not have to hang out there long. We asked them to pick up it a few hours after they delivered it. We unloaded it and got back to cleaning. When we sat down for dinner, we noticed the moving storage container was gone and we had a nice empty yard. It is amazing how quickly we forgot all the chaos and inconvenience of construction, as we enjoyed the great new space of our house.

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