Storage in Islington

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 Islington 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 Islington, from Angel to Finsbury Park, 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 Islington 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 chain that will not line up and a Georgian terrace halfway through a renovation, plenty of Islington 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 and not a unit inside the borough. 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 Islington that means we already know the tall Georgian townhouses around Barnsbury and Canonbury where a staircase turn on every landing decides how furniture leaves, the mansion blocks behind Upper Street that want moves booked with the management, and the one-way streets around Angel where a large lorry needs a planned route before it turns in.

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 Islington 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 Islington homes with the same number of bedrooms can fill a different number of containers, and a third floor walk-up takes longer to load than a house with a front drive. 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 Islington sits inside a controlled parking zone, 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, so where the kerb is controlled the practical answer is a parking suspension: the council reserves the bays outside your home for the day.

There is a cheaper route first. Islington lets you park outside your home free of charge when you are moving home: a branded removal lorry, or a hire van, can wait on a single yellow line or in a resident bay for as long as the loading takes, as long as loading is continuous. A suspension only becomes the answer when there is no usable space near your address, and the Islington moving-home parking page sets out the free-parking rules in full.

Islington charges a flat fee for the first day that covers the whole bay, then switches to a per-space daily rate from day two, and the per-space rate rises again from day three onwards. For most bays the application needs to be in at least fourteen days before the suspension starts, and pay-by-phone bays need ten, so Islington rewards an earlier booking than most boroughs. The Islington Council parking suspension page lists the current fees and takes the application. 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 Islington Council (council fee applies).

A few of the main roads are TfL red routes, where stopping is restricted at the best of times, so on those streets the plan is usually a side-road bay or a goods vehicle bay nearby rather than a suspension outside the door.

The building matters as much as the kerb. The tall Georgian townhouses around Barnsbury, Canonbury and the garden squares have narrow front doors and turning stairs, and we protect the floors and doorframes on the way out as standard. The mansion blocks behind Upper Street often want deliveries booked with the management and set their own hours for communal areas, so we check those rules before the day and work to them. And around Upper Street and Angel, weekend crowds and the one-way system both argue for a weekday, so for addresses in that pocket we will usually suggest a weekday collection.

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

Why choose Aviv for storage in Islington

• 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. That is the whole product.

Areas we cover from Islington

Islington sits inside our wider North London coverage. Within the borough we collect from Angel, Upper Street, Highbury, Barnsbury, Canonbury, Holloway, Tufnell Park and Finsbury Park, 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 Islington 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.