Closed storage unit with stacked household goods behind a mesh partition and a numbered plate

What we do

Storage between two homes

For when the key dates do not line up.

In short

A sale and a purchase rarely meet on the same day. Two weeks of gap is common, two months happens, and with new build in Floriande or Getsewoud the completion date is an estimate until shortly before handover. In all those cases the question is not where you sleep but where your belongings stand.

Household storage costs 50 to 250 euro per month depending on volume. The low end is a store of three cubic metres, the high end a whole family home. Per month that is nearly always less than the double housing costs a bridging arrangement carries.

What people forget with this option is the second loading day. Everything is handled twice: into storage and out again. That is three to five extra hours, which is more than a month of storage. With every storage quote, ask whether that second day is inside the price; it is the item that separates two storage quotes.

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Where it gets stuck

What can and cannot go in

Furniture, boxes, white goods and bicycles can. What cannot: food, plants, batteries, paint and anything flammable. A washing machine only goes in drained, otherwise there is water in the drum a month later.

The list is your control

At loading, the cubic-metre list from the survey is extended into an inventory, and you receive it. Without such a list there is no way afterwards to establish what was in storage, and then an insurance policy is a piece of paper with nothing behind it.

How the cover works

Cover on moving day and cover during the storage months are two different things. Ask every company about both, about the amount your belongings are covered for, and whether that applies per event or per item. That difference is large and it is rarely in the quote itself.

Amounts per type of home

What it costs

The rates for this part of the work, VAT included.

Four types of home, with the band two published sources give for each. All amounts include VAT, without a ladder lift and without packing.
Type of home	Amount, VAT included	Where the spread comes from
Studio or small flat	€ 350 to € 750	Half a day with one or two movers. This is the one line where the two sources part company: one starts at 350 euro, the other puts the smallest self-contained move at 650.
Two or three room flat	€ 500 to € 900	Add the ladder lift as soon as the flat is above the second floor or the building lift is small. In the blocks of northern Hoofddorp that is nearly always the case.
Terraced house	€ 700 to € 1.200	The housing type most quotes in this municipality rest on. A full attic or a shed of garden furniture pushes the outcome to the top of the band.
Detached house	€ 1.200 to € 2.500	Two vans or two runs, and almost always dismantling wardrobes and beds. Above two thousand euro a survey should have happened first, not a phone call.

On a wide screen the note per row sits in the third column. In short: the low end is half a day with two movers, the high end a full day with dismantling and a second run.

What is not included

Ladder lift, packing, dismantling and reassembly, boxes and storage. They stand with their rate in the item list above, and they are why two quotes with the same total promise different things.

What the survey changes

Half an hour, free of charge, and it produces the cubic-metre list. With that figure you can check any quote, ours included, and the list is and remains your property, whoever ends up doing the move.

Background

Storage tends to be considered late in a move, usually once a bridging loan has already been calculated. The arithmetic is simpler than it looks: a month of storage for a family home costs less than a week of double housing costs, and the gap widens with the size of the home.

The comparison that really matters is not storage against no storage, but storage against moving twice. Putting your belongings with family and having them collected later means paying for two full moving days. That is almost always dearer than three months of storage with a second loading day included.

Date already fixed?

Then the survey is the fastest next step. It takes half an hour and produces the cubic-metre list any quote can be checked against.

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Questions

Questions about storage between two homes

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Can I reach my things while they are in storage?

That depends on the form. With container storage your household is sealed and interim access is awkward; with your own unit it is possible. Say beforehand which you need, because switching afterwards means moving everything again.

How far ahead do I need to arrange storage?

At the same time as the moving date. The storage itself is usually quick to arrange; scheduling two loading days instead of one is not, particularly in the high season between May and September.

Is it charged per month started?

Yes, with virtually every provider. A fortnight of delay therefore costs a full month. Bear that in mind when planning a completion date that can still shift: leaving storage a week early saves nothing, a day late can cost a month.