PackingHow to pack furniture without wrecking it
Why you should never seal solid wood or leather in plastic, what acid-free tissue is really for, and the packing mistakes that cause damage months later.
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Packing & Preparing
How to pack and prepare your belongings for storage so they come back exactly as they left — West Sussex packing tips from a family storage firm.
Looking for the service itself? See how we wrap and store furniture.
Every item we collect gets blanket-wrapped and sealed into your own 250 cu ft wooden container before it goes into the warehouse — roughly the contents of a one-bedroom flat, or about 30–40 standard boxes. That protective wrapping is our job, but how things are packed before we arrive still matters: loose items, an unwrapped mirror, or a mattress left flat under boxes are what’s most likely to come back marked or misshapen months later.
The questions we hear most are what actually fits inside a container that size, what we’re not able to take (we don’t store vehicles, and there’s a short list of other restricted items), and how to prepare something as awkward as a mattress so it doesn’t warp or pick up damp while it’s stored.
The guides below cover each in turn: packing furniture properly, what can and can’t go into storage, and mattress preparation specifically. Since you won’t see the container again until redelivery, it’s worth getting the packing right before we arrive rather than after.
Guides in Packing
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PackingWhat can’t you put in storage?
The items UK storage rules and insurance won’t allow — flammables, fuel, food, plants and illegal goods — why each is banned, and what to do with them instead.
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PackingThe right way to store a mattress
A mattress can be ruined in storage by two pieces of advice you’ll read everywhere — sealed plastic wrap and a garage. Here’s how we clean, cover and store mattresses for customers across West Sussex so they come back the way they went in.
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