Like your car or your mattress, the large appliances in your home are items in which you have likely placed a significant investment. That is why it is so important to ensure they are properly cleaned and prepared whenever you need to store your appliances for en extended period of time. Refrigerators, large freezers and portable air conditioners in particular … Read More
Moving Cardboard Boxes vs Rental Plastic Boxes: Pros & Cons
Moving is one of the most stressful tasks you can take on at any given point in your life. It requires a lot of planning to ensure that everything goes smoothly from start to finish. One aspect of a move that lots of people overlook is the type of moving boxes to use for the move. For the most part, … Read More
Can You Really Live in a Vancouver Storage Locker? This Guy Did.
Living in a storage locker? Sounds pretty crazy, but one Vancouver man actually pulled it off! For a little while at least. By now you may be familiar with tiny homes, which are designed to save a serious amount of space while reducing a person’s carbon footprint. The average tiny home will rarely exceed 500 square feet in size. Compared … Read More
Storage of Metals: How to Clean Different Metals Before Storing Your Belongings
At Annacis Lock Up, we pride ourselves on keeping your personal belongings safe and secure. We have an electronically alarmed perimeter fence, which can only be accessed by a personalized as well individual door alarms to keep your possession safe. However, in order to ensure your belongings remain in good condition while they are kept in storage it is a … Read More
How to Store Tires in Self Storage
Most drivers living in the areas of Vancouver and Richmond probably own a couple of sets of tires for winter and warm weather conditions. If this is true in your case, you are often going to have to store one set of tires for an extended period of time. Keeping your tires properly stored in a self storage unit will … Read More
Vending Machine Commercial Storage & Moving
For years Annacis Lockup has provided customers with excellent storage services that help keep all types of belongings and valuables safe and secure. In addition to our top quality indoor storage facilities located in the Vancouver and Richmond areas, we are pleased to offer additional specialty services to our valued customers. One major part of storing valuable items is having … Read More
Long Term Storage Tips for Household Items
There are lots of reasons why people need to place their belongings in storage for an extended period of time. Sometimes it is easier to move things into storage during a major renovation. You may also do a lot of travelling for work, and sometimes it is easier and cheaper to rent a storage unit rather than an entire house … Read More
Preparing Musical Instruments for Long Term Storage
No matter what type of musical instrument you want to store over a long period of time, there are a few steps you should take to ensure your instrument comes out of storage in the same condition it was when it went into storage. Larger instruments like pianos are particularly susceptible to aging and degradation over time if they are … Read More
Indoor Climate Controlled Storage for Cars & Motorcycles
Car storage Vancouver Spring and summer are the perfect time to get that old hot rod out of storage and hit the open road. Lots of collectors and drivers spend all winter looking forward to when they can dust off their classic set of wheels and show their car or bike around town. The roads in Vancouver and the rest … Read More
Storing Your Clothes & Linens to Avoid Moths & Mould
Over time many of us run into a situation where it seems like we are about to be overwhelmed with all the clothing, bedding, linens and fabrics we have at home. To deal with everything in a neat and organized way, it makes most sense to store it all until we need it. Lots of people living in areas like … Read More