Here’s some helpful tips on hiring the best storage units in Tauranga!
Estimating how big you need your storage unit to be
Before picking any old size storage cube, it’s time to do some calculations!
I don’t mean you have to get crazy mathematical about it, but knowing the rough measurements of your largest items that you need to store is a great indicator for what your minimum size allowance needs to be!
Once you know the sizes of those largest items, it’s time to turn your gaze to the smaller items - because that stuff really can add up. Image it stacked neatly alongside your larger items to determine how much space you’re really going to need.
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If you are boxing them, consider the sizes of the boxes and not the items themselves. And, Voila! From those measurements, you can then find out the square foot space that you’re going to need to hire!
Figuring out how to calculate square feet
What you’ll need:
- A calculator (Most phones have one built-in)
- A measuring tape
- Rough dimensions (in feet, not centimetres) of your largest belongings or boxes as they might be packed up into a storage unit. (write down the rough total width and length somewhere easy to find)
If you measured your items with your tape measure in centimetres, you can easily hop online and do an online conversion to find your measurements in FEET. For example - 500cm is 16.4 feet.
To get this result, divide the centimetre length value of your items by 30.48 - and you’ll get the converted measurement in feet!
Finding square feet: To find the square feet of your items, multiply the TOTAL length measurement in feet by the TOTAL width measurement in feet. This yields a product called the area, which is expressed in square feet.
For example: 15 ft x 12 ft: 180 square feet
If you need help with this, don’t hesitate to contact our team at Cubeit to help determine what size storage tauranga you will need to hire!
Planning your packing method
Once you know which tauranga storage cube you’re going for, now it’s time to come up with an easy strategy for packing your items. For instance, if you are using your unit to access certain items from time to time, try and gauge which items you will need more regularly and pack them LAST so that they are closest to the entry door so you aren’t climbing over boxes or unpacking the whole thing to get to something way at the back!
Think of your furniture as fragile tetris. You want to use the cube space efficiently instead of trying to smash round pegs into square holes and spreading your items out (unless you want them this way and make a makeshift hallway in your storage tauranga unit). Figure out what items are best paired together so that they fit nice and snug (and safe!)
Work out the most cost-effective plan to suit your needs
This one is pretty straight forward. Once you have your daily price for your unit, calculate how many days you think you might need it - and if it’s worth using for a couple extra or fewer days here or there based on what you need the unit for. If it means you get some more time to search for the perfect home to move into, we’d say it’s pretty cost-effective to hang onto the cube unit for a little longer instead of having to repeat the process all over again to move again to a more suitable place later down the track!
Accessing your Cube storage unit in a hurry
How quickly do you want to be able to access the items inside your storage tauranga cube? Do you have space on your property to have the secure cube left on-site? Consider these options when thinking about how and when you need to access the items you are storing away. Based in Tauranga, our clients are generally all in the area, but if you are having to travel a little further afield to get to your unit, consider your options and make sure you aren’t packing away anything that you may need urgent access to. You have 24/7 access to your Cube at our secure location, with security cameras operating - but consider the convenience of what you are planning to pack away before doing so!
