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- Storing Your Favourite Car Over Winter
- Who Uses StorageVille?
- Kitchen Deep Clean and De-clutter
- Spring Cleaning: Map It Out
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- Storing and Caring for Vinyl Records
- Storing and Caring for Books
- Storing Household Linens
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For a car, inactivity can do just as much damage as it does for us people! Damage of nearly every kind can occur from just sitting, such as rotting rubber, mildew development, rust, engine parts can seize , and batteries can go dead.
Here's how to prevent this from happening to your car:
1. Give your classic a good detailing. Wash all road grime and salts from the undercarriage as well as body parts. Give the entire car a good wax.
2. Once your vehicle is ready to be parked for the winter, change or drain all related fluids, especially while the car is still warm.
3. Drain the fuel tank if you are going to store your car for more than six months. Once you have drained the tank, start the engine and run the rest of the gas out of the lines. Old gas will clog carburetors. If you only store your car for a few months, you can just add gasoline stabilizer to delay deterioration.
4. Drain the cooling sy ..
Self storage facilities are used by an array of people for many different reasons. Are you one of these groups that is currently keeping all of your storage items at home? Join others in enjoying more space at home, and peace of mind with StorageVille safely housing your goods.
Who uses StorageVille?
Families
Families use the services of storage facilities for various reasons. Most commonly, they use it for temporarily storing their household stuff while relocating from one place to another. It is also useful for families who don’t have enough room at home for all of their belongings. People normally store seasonal clothing, extra furniture, bulky sports equipment, patio furniture, and Christmas decorations in the storage lockers. Self-storage services are also useful during renovation of the house to temporarily store household items such as furniture, and moving boxes.
Classic Car and RV Owners
If you have one o ..
Some people like to begin their spring cleaning in the kitchen. The kitchen is the room that is usually used the most in a home. It is where your meals are prepared and keeping it clean and organized is a priority. Even though you may clean your kitchen daily, you still need to do that once a year deep clean that reaches the bottom of every drawer and the back of every one of the shelves.
For your kitchen spring cleaning, plan to empty every drawer and every shelf and wipe them clean. As you begin to put things back in place, take time to reconsider where things are being stored. Is there a deep drawer that you are always digging through to find things? Are all your baking pans together in one place? Perhaps moving some items to different areas will make your kitchen easier to work in.
Don’t forget to go through the items in your food pantry during your cleaning as well. Check for expiration dates. Throw out anything that is old. Reorganize this area too so that you can ..
Record collections are passed down through generations, built with a collector’s consideration, enjoyed in quiet contemplation and at raucous social events. Vinyl is a warm, textural listening experience, and steps must be taken to preserve it. Following a few basic principles will help to conserve your collection for present and future enjoyment.
Inventory. Depending on its size and/or value, you should prepare an inventory of your collection. Record the title, artist, date of release or date purchased (if known) and any other noteworthy information of each recording. Organize them in a way that makes sense for you – but keep it consistent.
Care. Keep your records clean. Dust and body oils can and cause poor sound quality and static. They damage the vinyl as well as the needles. Use cloths and brushes specially made for cleaning records; special chemicals are also available. The best, and easiest, way to clean a record is while it rotates on the turntable. Do ..
University texts, family heirlooms, classic novels and children’s stories – we collect a lot of books over the years. Regardless of how we come by our libraries, we find at some point that we have to store them away. Proper care and storage are essential to extending the life of your volumes. Here are some guidelines for doing it right.
Cleaning. If the book is extremely dirty, lightly vacuum with a brush attachment. For light to moderate amounts of dust and dirt, use a magnetic dry cloth. Hold the book firmly closed so dust doesn’t get between the pages and wipe the book from the spine outwards. Make sure there is nothing stashed between the pages of the book. Paper items and pressed flowers are acidic and damaging to the pages. Fasteners like paperclips can stain and tear.
Packing. Take an inventory of your books, noting the title, author, publisher, year, ISBN (if present) and any other information you find pertinent. An inventory will help you locate ind ..
There are two essential elements to caring for and preserving your linens: proper cleaning and proper storage. Before organizing and packing your linens and bedding away, it is important that they have been properly cleaned.
Remember to check the tags for washing instructions, but as a general rule, anything made from cotton can be laundered in the washing machine put in the dryer. Remove and fold items right after the cycle has ended to avoid wrinkling.
Bedding items like pillows and duvets should be washed in an oversized or industrial washing machine. You want these items to agitate freely and rinse properly. By
extension, make sure that the dryer you use is of adequate size. The duvet should tumble loosely so that the air can pass through it effectively. Select medium heat. You
don’t want to scorch the duvet. Shake it out between dryer cycles to fluff the fill. It may take 2-3 cycles to completely dry.
To maximize loft, add tennis balls in clean white cot ..
Now that you have recycled or found new homes for your unwanted stuff, you are left to organize the stuff you want to keep. The pile of stuff to fix should be fairly small and easy to organize. Designate a place in your home to store these items. It could be a mending basket in the laundry room, or a dedicated shelf in the garage. Wherever it is, it must be easily accessible – you don’t want this stuff to get lost at the back of a cupboard again!
The last, and likely largest, pile of stuff is comprised of the keepers. To create a storage strategy, it will be necessary to split this pile up into further categories.
Maybe you have saved some older household items to give to a child or grandchild when they move out on their own. These are things that you will never use again and can be packed up, clearly marked and stored until they are needed again. Seasonal stuff – like holiday decorations, winter and summer sports equipment – will go unused for the bet ..
Don’t go running off to the dump just yet.
Many things in your inventory can be recycled. Most clothing and household items can be donated to a local charity. StorageVille is a strong supporter of Big Brothers and Sisters and has drop off bins located at both locations. There are many other agencies that accept donations such as the Salvation Army and Canadian Diabetes.
Your local government’s waste management department is a good resource for information on how to deal with the other stuff. Winnipeg residents can follow this
link: http://www.winnipeg.ca/waterandwaste/recycle/howToRecycle.stm. (http://www.winnipeg.ca/waterandwaste/recycle/howToRecycle.stm)
Larger items, like furniture and bicycles, even if they’re broken, can get a new lease on life.
Advertise your stuff on a site like Craigslist; there are many hobbyists out there who might see their next project in your old, broken-down junk.
Throughout this process it is important to ..
Once you have made a list of your storage spots, think about how you might want to categorize the stuff that comes out of them: keep, fix, sell, give away, donate or recycle?
Here are some questions you could ask yourself. Will I be downsizing anytime soon? Are those comic books worth anything? Will my children (or grandchildren) need these ugly old dishes one day? Will I ever get around to learning how to snowboard?
A quick assessment of your needs and goals will help you gain perspective and clarity for the work that lies ahead. ..
Most of us are. By this time of year, the stuff seems to be taking over. It’s everywhere. From cold weather clothing and sports equipment to holiday decorations and gifts, there is stuff at every turn. Where did it all come from? And where will you store it? Is closing your eyes and throwing it in the basement really an option this year?
For many of us, the New Year brings with it a sense of obligation – obligation to improve on the year gone by. We make resolutions and set goals, and more often than not, we fall short of achievement. If you aim to clear the clutter and get the house in order, then you have chosen to aim high! But you know you have a daunting task ahead of you. At any point in the process, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But there are ways of easing the burden.
To begin, make a list of all your storage spaces. The big ones include attics, basements, garages and self-storage units. You may have other, smaller ..
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