Archive & Document Storage

Accountants, solicitors, healthcare providers, schools and construction firms are among the many businesses with formal or informal obligations to retain records for a set number of years. Keeping that paperwork in an active office is expensive and impractical once it's no longer needed day to day — but it still needs to be secure, dry, and findable if it's ever requested.

Individually alarmed units, site-wide CCTV and electric gates protect archived records the same way they protect any other stored items. We'd recommend clearly labelling boxes by year or department before storing, and keeping a simple inventory of what's in each unit — it makes retrieval far faster if you ever need to pull a specific file.

Standard access hours of 7:00am–9:00pm, seven days a week, mean archived files are rarely more than a short drive away if you need to retrieve something. For businesses that need to collect or return archive boxes regularly, ask about our collection and delivery service.

The value of archive storage drops fast if nobody can find anything once it's in there. A simple system — boxes numbered and labelled by year, department or client, with a written or spreadsheet index kept back at the office — turns 'somewhere in the unit' into 'box 14' in seconds, and it costs nothing beyond a bit of upfront organisation.

For businesses archiving under a specific retention schedule, it's also worth noting a destruction date on each box where relevant, so nothing sits in storage indefinitely past the point it was actually required to be kept.