Storage in Croydon

At a glance

• What it is: sealed 250 cu ft wooden containers at our own yard in Harlow, not self-storage lockers. Container storage collected from your Croydon door.
• What it costs: £20 + VAT per week per container for stays up to 8 weeks, £15 + VAT per week from 8 weeks onward. Insurance for goods in storage is included.
• How it works: we deliver the container, load it once in front of you, seal it, store it at our yard and redeliver it when you are ready. Collection and redelivery run as one job.
• The access trade-off: no self-access. We bring the container back to you on notice, in whole or in part.
• Coverage: all of Croydon, from Thornton Heath and Addiscombe out through Purley, Sanderstead and Coulsdon, run from our Harlow base.
• Response time: fill in the form or call 0207 846 0282 and we reply within one working day.

If you are looking for a storage unit in Croydon that you can drive to and open whenever you like, we will be straight with you: that is self-storage, and we are not it. What we offer is container storage. We collect your things from your door in a sealed 250 cu ft container, store that container at our own yard, and bring it back when you are ready. You never hire a van, and you never carry a sofa down a self-storage corridor. Between a completion date that slips, a chain that will not line up and a rental flat being turned around between tenants, plenty of Croydon homes need somewhere for their furniture to sit for a while. For most people in the middle of a move, this is the better fit.

We are Aviv Removals, a family-run firm based in Harlow on the Essex border, and the yard where your container sits is ours, not rented space in someone else’s warehouse. Adam, our owner, has been in the trade for more than fifteen years, and every collection is run by one trained crew of our own, the same crews that carry out storage in London and removals in Croydon every week. In Croydon that means we already know the Victorian terraces of Thornton Heath and Addiscombe where the front door opens straight onto the street, the 1930s semis out towards Purley and Sanderstead where the loft conversion decides how a wardrobe leaves the building, and the new towers around East Croydon where the concierge books the lift before we arrive.

Booking storage is one step: fill in the form or call 0207 846 0282. We confirm how many containers you need and the access at both ends, then you get an accurate written quote, and the price we agree is the price you pay.

What storage in Croydon costs

Our rates are published and simple. Pricing is per 250 cu ft container, per week:

Add VAT and the rates come to £24 and £18 a week. One rate covers one sealed container for one week, loaded by our crew at your address and stored at our own yard under 24 hour security and CCTV. There is a quirk worth knowing before you book a shorter stay to be safe: the tier covers the whole stay, so a container that stays eight weeks costs £120 + VAT in total while the same container for seven weeks costs £140 + VAT. Crossing the eight week line costs less than stopping a week earlier.

The exact total comes from the survey rather than a guess over the phone. Two Croydon homes with the same number of bedrooms can fill a different number of containers, and a flat over the shops on London Road takes longer to load than a semi with the van on the front garden. The survey captures the container count and the access before you commit, which is why the quote we agree is the price you pay. If the storage is riding alongside a move rather than standing on its own, the move itself is quoted from our published removals guide ranges, which start at two-bedroom homes.

What moves the total up or down:

Payment is straightforward. A 10% deposit at booking secures your collection date, and the balance is due after the job is complete. We take payment by bank transfer, card or cash, and the survey and the quote cost you nothing.

Parking and access on collection day

Much of Croydon sits inside controlled parking zones, and the operating hours differ from zone to zone, sometimes street by street. On a zoned street a collection lorry cannot legally wait in a resident bay during controlled hours, so where the kerb is controlled the practical answer is a bay suspension: the council reserves the bays outside your home for the day. Reserve two bays, not one. A 7.5 tonne lorry takes up about a bay and a half on its own, and it needs room to work.

Croydon charges £46 a day for resident suspensions on central controlled parking zone bays and £35 a day for bays everywhere else in the borough, with a £46 administration charge on top. The council asks for a minimum of ten working days notice, the charge has to be paid before the suspension goes in, and every request is subject to availability, so an application that lands late is not guaranteed anything. The Croydon Council parking suspensions page lists the current charges and takes the application. Applying is technically the resident’s job, because the council needs your details and payment. But you do not have to handle it alone. We tell you at survey whether your street needs one, and if you would rather not deal with it at all, we help arrange the suspension with Croydon Council (council fee applies).

The building matters as much as the kerb. The towers around East Croydon and George Street want collections booked with the building management, with the service lift reserved and loading run to a window, so we check those rules before the day and work to them. The Victorian terraces in the older streets have narrow front doors and turning stairs, and we protect them with floor coverings and doorframe guards on every collection. In the semis out towards Purley and Sanderstead it is the extensions that set the job: loft conversions add a flight and a tight turn at the top, and wardrobes that went up in pieces come down the same way. The A23 along Purley Way is a TfL red route, where stopping is restricted at the best of times, so for addresses fronting it the plan is usually a side-road bay nearby rather than a suspension outside the door. And the tram cuts straight across the town centre on rails a lorry cannot cross, so the route in is chosen for the vehicle, not just the map.

The full borough rundown, from suspension fees to the red routes, is on our removals in Croydon page, and the same access knowledge runs the storage collection.

Why choose Aviv for storage in Croydon

• Our own yard, not a broker’s arrangement. Most removal companies that offer storage hand your goods to a third-party warehouse. We do not. The container stays at our facility in our custody, start to finish.
• Loaded once, sealed in front of you. Nothing is decanted into a shared aisle or stacked under a stranger’s sofa. The seal does the security until the day we bring it back.
• Insurance included. Insurance for goods in storage is in the price rather than sold as an add-on at the end.
• One trained crew, all the way through. The crew that loads your container is the crew that returns it. No subcontractors.
• 5.0 on Google, across 160+ five-star reviews. That is the rating customers leave, not a claim we make about ourselves.

This is the same container storage in London service we run across the city.

One load, one seal, one company accountable from the first box to the last room. That is the whole product.

Areas we cover from Croydon

Croydon sits inside our wider South London coverage. Within the borough we collect from the town centre and the rebuilt quarter around East Croydon, Addiscombe, Waddon, Selhurst, Thornton Heath, Norbury, South Croydon, Sanderstead, Purley, Kenley, Coulsdon and Shirley, and the streets between them. The containers run between your door and our Harlow yard, so the storage follows the same routes our removal lorries already travel every week.

Storage plus the move, and the packing

Most Croydon storage starts with a move rather than a unit, and that is where using a removal company pays. Booked together, the collection and the removal are one job: the same crew wraps your furniture, loads what is coming with you onto the van and what is not into sealed containers, and the redelivery is coordinated with your actual move-in. Our removals with storage in London page covers the combined booking, which is usually cheaper than two separate ones, and there is one company to call when anything needs sorting.

If you would rather not face the boxes at all, our packing service covers everything from the whole house to just the kitchen, and professional wrapping is available for items going into storage, which loads the container denser and can save a container’s worth of weekly rate. Both are quoted alongside the job, so there is one price for the lot.