When you start your house cleaning, if the house is particularly full, you may struggle with places to put things securely that you need to come back to at a later date. As you start putting boxes together to pack things into and start pulling things off your shelving to sort, you will see your already limited space getting smaller and smaller. This is where a storage container can really come in useful.
A storage container is basically a container that would be delivered to your home and placed somewhere like your front lawn, it would have a lockable door and you would be given the key. You can then use this to store the boxes of things that you have sorted and placed into labelled boxes, while you continue to clear the rest of your home.
Once everything within the house is inside a labelled box, you can then start sorting through the boxes that you have, put all the stuff you are keeping together, all of the stuff you are storing, the things you want to sell or donate and the recycling and rubbish together. Only the boxes that you want to move to your new home or things that you are placing into storage should now be put inside these storage containers, all of the other boxes can be left inside the house. Once everything you want to move with you or store is inside this storage container it can be locked and you can arrange to have it collected and moved to your new home or placed into storage.
In your house you will then be left with a collection of boxes, some will most likely be things you want to sell or donate to charity and you should start looking at selling these as quickly as possible, consider using free advertising website’s or visiting a local charity shop and donating anything in good condition. The majority of stuff, however, will be in the rubbish pile. You should sort your rubbish into things that need to be thrown away and stuff that can go in the recycling, consider that a house clearance company will be able to recycle up to 90% of your things so the majority of your rubbish should be in the recycling pile. Once this is done you will need to start sorting through the recycling and sorting them into their categories by placing all plastics together and all paper items together, for example. Once the rubbish is sorted you will need to arrange taking this to a recycling centre or a waste disposal centre.
There are a number of benefits to using a storage container to help you clear your home, the main one being that it allows you more space to work in and help you to sort through the things in your house. Because you can keep the storage container for as long as you need to it allows you to clear your property at your own pace, there is no need to rush which takes out a lot of the stress of the house clearance. You will load the storage container and keep the key, this gives you peace of mind that you are the only person able to access your belongings, whereas if you hire a clearance company lots of people will be going through your stuff. Storage containers are lockable and therefore they are better than hiring a skip as passers-by can’t rummage through your belongings or decide to use your skip space for their rubbish too. Companies who offer storage containers are also able to offer storage facilities if you have things you want to keep but can’t accommodate right now.