Booking storage months before getting van

[Saucer]

Hi all,
Stupid question alert but I thought I'd ask. Our brand new van, which we're very excited about, is due at the dealers in April. Where we are in the SE a lot of the storage is full. We have found somewhere where we can reserve a space but we'd need to start paying now. 80 pcm
Given we have few other options, that seems to be what we will need to do or risk not having anywhere, especially when other people get Spring vans. We can afford it and its not masses against the cost of the van but is still a lot for nothing before we park there.
Any words of wisdom or thoughts of what you'd do?

 

[Saucer]

I have contacted them to book. I’m waiting to hear back. Thanks for all the comments. There’s certainly a consensus in favour of getting it reserved which I’ve done.

 

[seasideBill]

Small point to check when considering storage… can you get hold of someone if there’s an access problem? Power went off at our storage site on a bank holiday locking all the entry/exit systems. Plenty of folks around normally but a ghost town on Sundays & bank holidays. We were booked on a ferry later that day!

 

[Saucer]

Small point to check when considering storage… can you get hold of someone if there’s an access problem? Power went off at our storage site on a bank holiday locking all the entry/exit systems. Plenty of folks around normally but a ghost town on Sundays & bank holidays. We were booked on a ferry later that day!

Good point. I think it is access via calling someone on mobile

 

[starquake]

Good point. I think it is access via calling someone on mobile

Ours it's the local farm, so it's open every day, and the farmer himself lives literally next to it (ie's about 100 yards down the lane to his farmhouse).

Given the business is open every day (and actually has an onsite cafe for his farmhands) it's never unaccesible, even when power is out. We have the mobile number of the security man supplied to us in event of issue 24/7/365 but the gate contains 2 other numbers including the farmer himself if the security guy can't get there in a timely fashion and all else fails.

The automated gate in our case has came off it's runners before, but given that blocks access to many businesses as well as the storage yard, it will quickly be fixed (and the other businesses are open at weekend, as one is a shop, and one is the local flogas distribution yard.

That said, we tend to pickup the van the day before we leave so we can load with water and warm the van on the home leccy if it's cold so we not arriving at a site with a freezing rear of the van.

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[Hymer Tony B]

Hi all,
Stupid question alert but I thought I'd ask. Our brand new van, which we're very excited about, is due at the dealers in April. Where we are in the SE a lot of the storage is full. We have found somewhere where we can reserve a space but we'd need to start paying now. 80 pcm
Given we have few other options, that seems to be what we will need to do or risk not having anywhere, especially when other people get Spring vans. We can afford it and its not masses against the cost of the van but is still a lot for nothing before we park there.
Any words of wisdom or thoughts of what you'd do?

If you can afford it safest option. Beware mice. Check where spot is allocated, beware of trees and most definitely hard standing. Last time we used storage was on a field. When wet no one could get out of field as exit was on a slope. Also our allocated space was next to trees so solar panels weren't keeping starter battery charged up. Also had mice infestation. Npw parked on our drive, car parked on front, has lots security like pedal locks, steering lock, chained up steering wheel to seat and wheel locks. Also well hidden tracking device.

 

[V and B]

7 years or so ago, we put an offer on a house about 50 miles from our previous home, shortly after a fellow rallier told us the local storage site was expanding, and advised us to get in quick, which we did, knowing that the house purchase at that point could have fallen through at any time. Lucky we did, by the time we moved many months later all the spaces had long gone.

A couple of years ago the storage site expanded again, all spaces were snapped up within a very short space of time. Storage spaces are like gold dust.

Good job you posed the question saucer!

 

[The Wino]

We are fortunate to have plenty of storage at home but I did end up paying another years insurance prenium to keep our history and ncb intact when we'd sold our existing van and our new one kept getting delayed due to the impact of lockdowns etc.

I think you keep NCB for about 3 years even if you don't have insurance then it gradually reduces.

 

[Nanniemate]

Put a rag soaked in white spirit in the van in a old plastic or glass container

They really don't like the smell