When it comes to custom motorcycles, or select pieces of museum-quality art. A specialized storage service, not found in the average self storage Cape Town facility, is required. In the US, the largest self storage market in the world. It is more common to find this type of facility.

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Some of these storage facilities will construct customized crates, in an in-house crating shop. These crates help mitigate the risks to artwork. Including shock, vibration, abrasion and climate fluctuations. They will also employ highly trained art handlers, conservators, restorers, appraisers, insurance professionals, consultants and auction houses, during the process. Since precision climate control is critical to the preservation of many of the items stored in the facility. Dual precautions are in place to maintain power in the event of an outage. Something which is also commonplace in the average self storage Cape Town facility. Onsite generators are capable of maintaining power to these facilities for a full two weeks, if necessary. For the larger items, specialized rigging is provided. This allows for the removal from storage, and installation into their ultimate destination. usage of boom trucks, gantry cranes, hoisting and other custom solutions are also utilised. Some of the items, which these high flying clientele store, include: Large scale sculptures, tapestries from European castles, oversized artworks, grand pianos, antique silver sets, rare books, ivory sculptures and intricate model ships.

With the booming self storage market here in South Africa. Storage Panda believes we could be seeing these niche markets catered for by storage facilities, fairly soon. At least, in the not to distant future. It is already happening to some extent in the country.

The Panda hopes that this has helped. For more interesting self storage news, be sure to check out Self Storage Johannesburg, Self Storage Cape Town, Storage Cape Town, Self Storage Durban, Self Storage Pretoria and Storage Pretoria.

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