How to clean your Storage Unit - Southwick Storage

How to clean your Storage Unit Not all of the storage facility provided company make sure to offer a clean and dust-free environment. Various bugs, vermin and another kind of pests might be present at the entries, parking lots, hallways etc.

They have to take necessary action to reduce the bugs and offer clean storage units.

In this post, we have mentioned a few easy tips on how to keep your storage units clean?

1. First and foremost, prepare yourself to clean the unit: This is a necessary step if you have not visited your unit in years or your unit is crowded with a lot of stuff. This attracts a lot of dust, pest and clutter. This can be managed by following the below-mentioned tips: 

Make a plan: You have to roughly calculate the

hours, months or days it will need to clean the unit. You have to make a schedule. As they say — ROME IS NOT BUILT IN A DAY. Thus, you

do not have to clean it in an hour. It will take time to make things work. 

Note down the people who can help you -It is

going to be a tiring process. You can take help from friends, family, spouse, partner etc. This will take less time to complete the task. 

Take control of your emotions: — This is a work

which requires patience. You have to clean your personal items. Some of them hold an emotional place in your heart.

Your sentiments are attached to them. This is going to be an emotional process so you have to control your emotions.

2. Create a document of everything you possess in the unit: This is another step you must take care

of if you have not visited the storage unit lately.

Once you entered the facility, enlist everything you have. Take notepad and pen with yourself. You can also make a list on your mobile phone.

Now you know how many things you have and how much time will it take to clean it. Also, you get to know about the things you have to get rid of. If you have more items but have less space in the

unit, you can document the items and clear the corner. It gives access to other items. You can select the items which are of no use.

2. Make four boxes: You have four options i.e. trash, donate, keep, and sell. Before organizing and cleaning the unit, you can start by removing unnecessary items.

Take four boxes and name them trash, donate, keep and sell. Take an item and decide in which box you have to put the item. This will help in decluttering the space.

Have a look at the tips! 

Keep Box: Does the item have any use or does it

give you the delight by keeping the item? 

Trash Box: Is it useless or broken? You can

trash it or recycle it. 

Donate or sell: If the item can be used but do

not have immediate use, you can donate the item or sell it to off and make some money.

4. Reorganise the items: If you have shelves, you

can remove their dust with wet wipes, wet towel or by using a microfibre dusting cloth. You can also reorganise the stuff you kept on these shelves.

You can also store cleaning supplies in the unit so that whenever you visit the facility, you can routinely clean the storage.

Visiting the storage facility once or twice in a month helps to declutter the space and avoid harming the store items.

Cleanliness plays an important part. These simple ways help in maintaining the belonging and unit clean as well as well organized.

Reference:

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