All of us at Ticks Haulage and Storage
Would like to wish our friends and customers
A very Happy Christmas
and a
Prosperous New Year
Two more months to go and our self-storage division will be celebrating its second anniversary
In February 2018 our self-storage facilities will be two years old.
Set in secure premises surrounded by a 2.4 metre-high steel security fencing palisade with big steel gates we offer safe, secure storage 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.
How can you be sure your property is secure? Everyone gets their own key to the gate and a padlock for the container, for which we charge a deposit.
Very soon, installation of CCTV will be completed, with remote access so that we can check on security from any location via the internet.
Why is our storage unique?
We believe we are the only self-storage company that will deliver a container to your premises, as long as you have the space and good access. This means you only have to load your property once. We recently did this for a home owner, depositing the 10 ft container on their driveway giving them a weekend to pack everything to their satisfaction before we picked it up and took it back to our yard.
All our containers are new, no more than two years old, and all have insulated roofs to ensure no moisture gets in to potentially damage stored property.
Who uses our storage?
Many of our customers are small businesses and tradespeople such as plumbers, construction companies and sole traders needing somewhere to store their stock.
However, we also have clients who are regulars at car boot sales, as well as people who are moving home, or going to work abroad for a period of time and need somewhere to store their possessions while they rent out their homes.
We can also offer secure space for vehicles, such as caravans and vans and we have one client who has a trailer that he leaves with us in between uses.
Many businesses have an occasional need for something heavy to be transported either to or from their sites.
In these circumstances having their own lorry-mounted crane sand a suitably qualified driver may not be cost-effective. However, there is a solution and that is to hire a lorry-mounted crane and driver from Ticks.
We have a 50-tonne meter lorry-mounted crane that is suitable for up to two tonnes at 16 metres. That is enough to lift and transport a shipping container. On one occasion a private client who was moving home rented a container to hold the contents of their home and we shipped it for them.
But it is not only containers that the crane can lift.
Among our recent jobs has been lifting a condenser onto a roof for a client and lifting wooden, ready-assembled eaves and RSJs (Rolled Steel Joists onto buildings for construction companies.
We are often called on by engineering companies to transport and deliver heavy pieces of equipment they have constructed to order for clients.
Another favourite is portable buildings and we have shifted and positioned classrooms for schools and cabins for construction companies. Sometimes, construction companies also hire our crane for the day to work on site and help with putting up buildings.
Then, of course, there are boats. Most recently one of these jobs involved picking up a boat from Manningtree and delivering it to Southampton.
These are just a few examples of the types of heavy equipment that our lorry-mounted crane can move, so why not get in touch with Ticks if you want something heavy shifting.