Garage and annexe clearances
Usually the largest part of the collection and the part nobody counts.
No driving to a unit. No van hire. No lifting.
Khalifa City is villas on generous plots, and the storage here is garage storage. We size for that rather than for the bedroom count.
Usually the largest part of the collection and the part nobody counts.
Long-held houses get refitted. Collected and returned room by room.
Bulky and unusable in summer. Cleaned, wrapped and stored until the season turns.
Khalifa City sits on the mainland between the airport and the island, laid out as villa plots across Khalifa City A and B with Shakhbout City adjoining. The houses are large, frequently extended, and held on long tenancies by families — Emirati households, long-settled expat families and a substantial number of people working at the airport and the nearby government and defence employers.
The pattern is accumulation, not turnover. A Khalifa City collection is a villa job: 240 to 400 square feet, most of a day, and the garage and outdoor areas carrying a disproportionate share of it. Many of these villas have an annexe or extension used as storage already, which means the volume is dense and rarely inventoried before the day — we would rather survey than estimate here. Access is straightforward, with driveways and street parking, but the plots are large and the street numbering is not intuitive, so we ask for the villa number and a nearby landmark. Summer loading is outdoors with no shade, and the drive from the island adds time, so these are scheduled as early starts.
Our crew comes to your Khalifa City address, wraps what is going and loads it.
Billed on the floor space your items occupy, not on a unit size you have to fill.
Multi-angle CCTV covers every corridor, entry point, loading area and storage zone.
Take back one box or everything, normally within 24–48 hours.
A call, a WhatsApp or the quote form. A rough list is enough for us to size it.
The crew arrives on the agreed date, wraps everything and loads the van.
Items go into the covered facility under camera, logged so they can be found again.
All of it or part of it, back at the address you choose, usually within 24–48 hours.
Charged on the space your things actually take up. Transport from Khalifa City is quoted separately and told to you up front rather than added afterwards.
240 to 400 square feet, and usually most of a day. The garage, any annexe and the outdoor areas carry a large share of it, which is why a bedroom-count estimate here is routinely a third short.
Yes, and for a Khalifa City villa we would prefer to. It is free and takes about half an hour, and on a job this size the difference between a survey and an estimate is whether the crew finishes in a day.
Your things do not stay in Abu Dhabi. We operate the collection and delivery service here and store at our nearest facility. Your belongings are stored at Building 23, Warehouse 5, DIP-1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. If you specifically want a unit in Abu Dhabi you can drive to, a local self-storage yard suits you better and we would rather say so now.
It is quoted on the actual job — your address in Khalifa City, how the access works (lift, stairs, parking) and how much there is to move. We do not price transport from a table, because a ground-floor flat with parking outside and a ninth floor with a booked service lift are not the same job. You get the transport figure and the storage figure before anything is booked, and the number you are given is the number you pay. Storage itself is charged only on the space your items use.
What decides it is access, not distance. A villa or ground-floor flat with somewhere to park is quick; a high floor in a tower where the service lift has to be booked and shared with other residents takes longer, and that is the single biggest variable in Abu Dhabi. When we quote we give you a time window for the day and the crew confirms on arrival. Packing loose items into boxes yourself beforehand is the one thing that reliably shortens it.
Yes, and it is the most common reason people here call us. We empty the property on the day you hand the keys back, hold everything for however long the gap runs, and deliver to the new address once you can receive it. Billing is monthly on the space used with no minimum term, so a twelve-day gap costs twelve days, not a month. If the handover slips again you simply tell us a new date. It works the same in reverse coming into Abu Dhabi.
Yes — access is arranged on request rather than by turning up, because your things are stored in a working warehouse rather than a unit you hold a key to. Tell us when you would like to come and we book a slot and have your items ready. 24/7 facility access available for existing customers on request. If you only need something back rather than to see it, delivery to your door is usually the easier answer and is normally arranged within 24–48 hours.
There is no minimum period and no lock-in. Storage is billed month to month on the floor space your items actually occupy, and you can end it whenever you like with no early-termination penalty. A fortnight is charged as a fortnight. There is equally no maximum — some customers store for years — and you can add to or take from what is stored without renegotiating anything.
Yes, and it is one of the steadier reasons we get called here. We can take the whole property or work room by room as the job moves through it, collecting in stages and delivering back the same way, so you are never paying to store more than you need to. Each collection is quoted before it happens. Tell us roughly how long the work is expected to run — and expect it to overrun, which costs you nothing extra because there is no fixed end date.
Ask us for the current cover position in writing before you book, and tell us if you are storing anything high-value — art, antiques, instruments, specialist equipment — so it is addressed on your quote rather than assumed. What we can state plainly is how your things are kept: wrapped before they leave your property, stored off the floor inside a covered warehouse rather than a yard or a container, and logged on a signed inventory at collection so there is a written record of every item. Multi-angle CCTV covers every corridor, entry point, loading area and storage zone.
We wrap and load. Furniture is wrapped before it leaves the property, and our crew carries it and handles the lift booking and loading bay — you do not hire a van, carry anything, or negotiate with building management. What is worth doing yourself is boxing up small loose items beforehand: it makes the collection faster and cheaper, because you are billed on the space your things occupy and packed boxes stack where loose belongings do not.
Yes, and it is what the end of each term looks like here. Paying to hold a room over a summer you are not in the country for costs far more than storing what is in it. We collect from the residence at the end of term, hold the boxes over the break, and deliver back when the new year starts — to a different address if you have moved. There is no minimum term, so a three-month summer is charged as three months. Book the collection date early: end of term is the busiest fortnight of the year and slots go quickly.
Free quote, no survey fee, nothing booked until you agree both numbers — the storage and the transport. Monday–Sunday 8 AM–8 PM.