How A Self-Storage Unit Can Help Your Possessions Gain Value

Some possessions gain importance with the passing of time. The most sentimentally and financially valuable inheritance isn't always houses and cars; often, it is a rocking chair your grandmother loved or a painting your parents bought decades ago.

Unfortunately, these items often find themselves littering already cluttered homes, making living spaces smaller and functional equipment more necessary than ever. It is common for items you love to get damaged as a result of too much constant proximity to people. Kids running around, cleaning accidents and even weather damage can make your homes unsafe for the possessions you love.

Here are a few ways in which hiring a self-storage unit can help increase your possessions' value.

Low Risk Of Damage

Most tragic flower vase, china or artwork incidents occur at the hands of unsuspecting, overly energetic children. If you have children or live in a home with them, rather than preventing them from running about carefreely, you'll want your prized possessions out of harm's way. Being stored in a unit that you will lock and safeguard as you wish, your belongings have no chance of withstanding impact or getting worn-out from being passed around from hand to hand.

For antique furniture, in particular, a storage unit also limits movement for cleaning purposes (such as getting a chair out of the way to vacuum-clean or moving a vase to wipe dust off the table beneath it). With clean-up processes being a major cause of valuable breakage, having them stored in a unit proofed against dust and outside debris is the best solution for protection.

No Contact With Harsh Lighting Or Heating

Natural light has been found to accelerate the deterioration of materials such as linen, leather, paper and wood. Natural light is one of the main causes of artwork deterioration, and UV rays can often penetrate through glass to impact indoor spaces. Your storage unit, however, is going to be windowless. This limits the exposure of more delicate materials to sunlight.

Aged possessions also fare poorly with humidity and heating, which are present in most households. While moisture is trapped in the walls, it often affects the quality of the air. Moist air, particularly when heated, can quickly damage music records, paintings, books, photographs and even printed documents. Storage units are designed to keep moisture at bay and, without the need for heating, maintain your possessions in excellent condition throughout the seasons.  

A Concluding Word

A storage unit can be an additional investment in your current possessions. It will offer protection from damage as a result of frequent handling, weather conditions or lighting. Keeping your possessions in pristine shape, self-storage units allow them to gain value with time, as opposed to deteriorating before your eyes.