Storage units for rent usually provide a safe environment for storing a variety of items, including antique furniture of high value. You must make sure to check the space you planned for storage and tick the following off the list:
Clean and pest-free
The floor must be perfectly clean, the room pest-free. You don’t want to have any pests ruin the wooden or upholstered parts of your antique furniture.
Humidity and exposure to light
Being even more fragile than new furniture, it is extremely important that the room you store the antique furniture in is dry and dark without any exposure to direct light. Basements, garages, and attics immediately fall off the list for not being reliable when these two factors come into consideration.
Temperature variations during different seasons
Keeping in mind that the precious wooden parts of your antique furniture are very sensitive to low or high temperatures, regulating temperature in your storage room is simply a must. Extremely low temperatures can cause high humidity levels that may bring to change in the wood structure and thus ruin your precious antique furniture.
Safety – right security measures
It is always a good and safe solution to have the surveillance cameras and alarm systems installed to secure your storage room. Without it, chances are the stored antique furniture can become easy to steal.