Storage in Harlow

At a glance

• What it is: sealed 250 cu ft wooden containers at our own yard in the town, not self-storage lockers. Container storage collected from your Harlow 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 a few minutes away 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 Harlow, from Old Harlow to Church Langley, plus the villages around it, run from the yard on the doorstep.
• 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 Harlow 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 has slipped, a chain that will not line up and a renovation between tenants, plenty of Harlow 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, and Harlow is where the company is based. The yard where your container sits is ours, it sits in this town, and it is minutes from most of the doors we collect from, not rented space in someone else’s warehouse and not a unit across the city. 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 house removals across the capital every week. In Harlow that local knowledge is the town itself: which neighbourhood entrances feed which streets, where a lorry can load without any booking at all, and which of the older streets need the staircase planned before the day.

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 a fixed written quote, and the price we agree is the price you pay.

What storage in Harlow 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 Harlow homes with the same number of bedrooms can fill a different number of containers, and a Church Langley house with a full garage and loft loads differently from a town centre flat with a walk from the kerb. 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

Harlow is easier to load than almost anywhere else we collect from, and that is part of what storing with a firm based here buys you. Most streets have the kerb space for a 7.5 tonne lorry without any booking at all, and plenty of the newer houses at Church Langley and Newhall have driveways at both ends of the job. Where bays or yellow lines do apply, the practical answer is the same as anywhere: a parking suspension, where the council reserves the space outside your home for the day. Harlow’s on-street parking is administered by the North Essex Parking Partnership, which runs bay suspensions across the district on behalf of Harlow Council. Fees vary by bay and duration, so we confirm the current cost before anything is booked rather than quoting from memory. Applying is technically the resident’s job, 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 Harlow Council (council fee applies). Not every street needs one, and it is one of the first things we check at survey. If you do not need to pay the council, we will not book one.

The buildings matter as much as the kerb. The older streets around Old Harlow and Mark Hall carry the period jobs: cottages and terraces where the staircase decides the day and wardrobes come apart before they leave the room, and we protect floors and doorframes on the way out as standard. Church Langley and Newhall are the opposite problem, bigger houses where access is easy and the job is volume. Around the town centre and the Water Gardens, loading needs agreeing in advance, and the student lets moving through the older neighbourhoods keep a steady turnover of morning-sized jobs. The layout adds its own quirk: Harlow was laid out as a new town of separate neighbourhoods strung together with green wedges, so two addresses that sit close together on the map can be a drive apart when the shortcuts are footbridges rather than roads, and we route by neighbourhood rather than by postcode pin. Collections from the villages around the town, Roydon and Nazeing among them, are normal runs for us, and the yard being here keeps the return leg short.

The full neighbourhood rundown, from suspensions to the period staircases, is on our removals in Harlow page, and the same access knowledge runs the storage collection.

Why choose Aviv for storage in Harlow

• Our own yard, here in the town. Most removal companies that offer storage hand your goods to a third-party warehouse, often miles from where they were collected. We do not. The container sits at our facility in Harlow, minutes from the door it was loaded at, 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, with the yard closer to your door than for anyone else who books it.

One load, one seal, one company accountable from the first box to the last, and the container never leaves the town. That is the whole product.

Areas we cover from Harlow

Harlow sits at the top of our North London coverage: the M11 runs from the North London boroughs to junction 7 on our doorstep, and it is the road our removal lorries travel every week. Within the town we collect from Old Harlow, Mark Hall, Church Langley, Newhall, Potter Street, the Stow and the town centre, and beyond it from the villages that use Harlow as their town: Roydon, Nazeing and Hunsdon, the route out towards Sawbridgeworth and Bishop’s Stortford, and the Epping side of the district. For storage the home ground works in your favour: the run between your door and the yard is a few minutes, so a collection does not eat a morning and a redelivery can slot tightly around your move-in date.

Storage plus the move, and the packing

Most Harlow 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 van runs to the yard minutes away rather than across the city, so the storage leg of the day is a short one. 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.