Hiring a storage unit is a good way to safeguard your items between moves or over a holiday. It also helps free up space around your house. However, some household and personal items need regulated temperature as changes in temperature or humidity can affect their quality. These items include the following:

Consumer Electronics

Any video or audio equipment or computers are best stored in climate-controlled self-storage units. Moisture builds up in basic units that can short circuit your electronics when you attempt to turn them on. Besides, exposing electronics to moisture for extended periods can lead to rust and damaged equipment.

Special Personal Collections

Are you a collector? How do you ensure your special personal collections are safe and their quality is well preserved? One way is by renting a climate-controlled self-storage unit and storing these special items. For example, souvenir coins can quickly tarnish under regular units, losing their quality, while collected stamps tend to curl or even stick to surfaces under high humidity or high temperature.

Medical and Pharmaceutical Supplies

Most manufacturers recommend storing medical supplies under low-temperature conditions. Storing them at slightly higher temperatures can lead to the supplies degrading or going bad. Always check the recommended storage temperature, and set the unit to the recommended temperature range.

Musical Instruments

All musical instruments are delicate and high-quality possessions that are best stored in climate-controlled self-storage units irrespective of the duration. A piano, for example, contains a wooden body that is prone to damage from prevailing weather conditions.

Acoustic guitars can easily snap under extreme heat because the adhesives holding them in place get weaker. Musical instruments made of brass can easily break down under high heat or extremely high humidity. Thus, consider renting a unit where you can set the humidity or temperature to suit your instruments.

Documents and Important Paperwork

Paper is extremely sensitive to climatic conditions. Under the wrong conditions, paper can degrade, become illegible and irrecoverable. Therefore, documents like contracts and tax files are best preserved in climate-controlled self-storage units. If you have sensitive documents that you would like to store, rent out a climate-controlled unit.

Wine

It's sensitive, and even the slightest temperature change significantly affects its quality. Your wine's quality can either accelerate or deteriorate depending on the prevailing weather conditions. A minor temperature change can result in the wine getting oxidized and adopting an unpleasant metallic taste.

Other than a sour taste, storing wine in the unregulated temperate storage unit will waste money, resources, and effort you put into the wine collection. Therefore, to prevent spoilage and wastage, and promote proper wine aging, you need to keep your wine in a unit where you can set the desired temperature.

Besides the above items, you should also store your documents, artwork, photographs in climate-controlled self-storage units.

For more information, contact a self-storage facility in your area.