Student Deal - Storage Rooms & FREE Collection service*.

Students!

Going Home or Travelling for the summer?

Need Storage?

Secure Own key Storerooms. 

€10 - €12 per week!

FREE Collection Service

Students store their personnel belongings in secure own key storerooms, nobody else has access to their room. Our facility has 800 rooms, it’s very clean and dry and security is at the highest level. This storage is hassle free and easy to organise.

4 Easy Steps to Storing

1. Pack your belongings

2. Meet us to show ID and sign in

3. We will arrange collection time.

4. You lock your unit

We are now offering a FREE Collection service for students, when they prepay for 3 months.

Go to www.elephant.ie

info@elephant.ie or ph: 01 494 0000

How to book either book online

Storage Rooms

'TOYS FOR TUBS' - Third week now and the presents are pouring in. Thank you to all the generous people who have dropped toys off at Elephant Self Storage and other self storage centre’s around Ireland in association with the Irish Self Storage association.

We are storing the toys in a secure, dry and clean storage room ready for collection on the 8^th December 2010.  Plenty of room in the storage unit so find out how you can Join In!!!

Count Me In!

Ryan Tubridy from 2fm wants lots of toys for Christmas. Not for himself, but for all the children around the country who will be in need this Christmas. We're working with our friends in St Vincent de Paul to make sure that no child is without a toy this Christmas morning. Are You In?

For more info on the Toys For Tubs appeal, click here!

TOYS FOR TUBS  FOR SVP - GIFT IDEAS:  

 No large presents – size wise..   Vouchers are perfect.

 Click to download the Toys for Tubs for SVP Gift List Nov 2010.doc

Get what you would like …for yourself or family…

Ask in your local BOOKSHOP. Book sellers are always able to recommend good books for kids of particular ages, and they will know what is popular.

Vouchers… ‘One for all’ are great. … and they can be used in a variety of shops and not supporting any one store/company.

Do not wrap the presents… unwrapped

Minimum value €10.   

New- no second hand toys………  please

Thanks 

 Elephant Self Storage team

SO, HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Buy a toy.

Don't wrap it! (Thanks)

Drop it off at Elephant Self Storage in Tallaght.

Drop off times are between our working hours Monday - Friday 9.30 - 17.30, Saturday 10 - 14.00 Closed Sundays.

Ryan Tubridy wants lots of toys for christmas. Ryan and the Society of St Vincent de Paul are working together to make sure that no child is without a toy this christmas morning. Elephant self storage in assocaition with The Irish Self Storage is a drop off point.

You care for your property at home/in business.

What about where you store it?

The financial crisis in Ireland has reached the self-storage business. In recent days a very large storage facility in Dublin has gone into receivership.

A trawl through the accounts of other storage businesses can help you decide where to store as much as the cheapest price. One large firm has written off €29 million following expansion at the height of the Celtic Tiger. Another firms accounts show it has borrowings in excess of €10 million. Other storage firms accounts show serious losses. Some storage firms are highly exposed to their banks including Anglo Irish Bank. Most of our competitors show an excess of liabilities over assets. Be careful where you store your goods; the cheapest price could turn out to be the most expensive!

Why is this?

In recent years a number new firms entered the storage business. Property was purchased at the height of the property market. Some existing firms expanded, borrowed serious money and bought premises at ridiculous prices. They are now caught in the financial crisis with falling rents and unsustainable bank borrowings.

Unsustainable Pricing.

How have they reacted? The firm which has just gone into receivership was offering rents at as low as a €1 a month. Other firms are dropping their rents in a race to the bottom. It is only a matter of time till some of these firms follow the same path as the large firm in receivership here in Dublin.

A complex business.

The operation of a self-storage facility is a complex mix of many things. There is the substantial capital requirement for the purchase of premises. Then there is the fit out cost of the individual rooms and the provision of fire safety requirements. The cost of providing security is massive. In Elephant Self Storage our facility in Tallaght we have invested huge capital in electronic and physical security. We have seven levels of security including over 80 individual CCTV cameras with 24 hour live monitoring and remote security monitoring which will talk live to anyone attempting to enter our compound. Management systems are installed to control the hotel-like facility with numerous different size rooms for clients staying from a day to years with some moving between different size rooms as their businesses change from time to time. Then there is the investment in staff, training, marketing, offices, rates, insurance, maintenance, cleaning, special designed lifts, parking and loading areas and exclusive to Elephant storage, a Business Incubation Centre (www.ebic.ie) to allow business clients not only to store their goods but to run their entire business from the one location.

How can a self storage facility provide that level of professionalism demanded by discerning clients for silly rents? The answer is that it is not possible.

Cheap?

If you just decide to rent from the cheapest storage centre then perhaps you should ask a friend to loan you space in a garage or buy a garden shed. Perhaps you are not worried about damp or theft. Your friend will not mind giving you access when ever you want to visit your goods. Insurance is not important and cleanliness is unimportant. Then that is the way you can save money.

Silly.

On the other hand if you value your possessions you must decide if you want a cut price operator with a very real danger that they will go bust whilst storing your goods or alternatively you decide to store  in a facility like Elephant Self Storage that has been run by a family in business for over 50 years and is financially strong. Check us out. Our annual accounts are looked after by KPMG and Smith & Co, Chartered Accountants. Our bank is AIB, Crumlin Road, Dublin 12 and our solicitors are Eversheds O’Donnell Sweeney. Unlike most other self storage facilities our accounts show we are well capitalised, and well financed.

We monitor our competitors to make sure we are highly completive. Our prices offer excellent value but they are not silly. Your goods mean a lot to you and the last thing you want is to find yourself caught up in a receivership. If a price is too good to be true, then most likely” it is too good to be true". Be careful,

( And, we want to be in business for another 50 years! )

NOTE: The sources for the data in this blog are available on request.

Storing Applicances

There is no point in keeping broken appliances. If you’ve been promising yourself to fix your old toaster but haven’t got around to it a year later then the chances are you never will. The same goes for old furniture that needs to be fixed or re-upholstered. Generally these items end up in the garage, gathering dust. Fix them or get rid of them. However, if you have perfectly good furniture and appliances that you don’t use, consider these tips:

• Working appliances can be swapped or given away over the internet or you can give them away on Dublin waste website FREE Trade Site.
• Smaller electrical and electronic items can be sold on bidding sites such as eBay.
• Young couples moving into a first home often need furniture. Try placing an ad on the internet or in a magazine such as Buy and Sell or try eBay.

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  Storeroom for Toys & Boxes

   

Furniture that you are keeping for children or items that no longer fit in the home, such as a piano, should be put into Elephant self-storage for just €10 per week.

Elephant Self Storage have lanuched a new exciting website. Elephant Self Storage are based in Tallaght near Junction 11 on the M50.  The website has lots of advice and information from decluttering your home, moving tips, all about home storgae, business storage to running your own business. Find out more www.elephant.ie

The company is part of the O'Meara Group of companies that has been operating since the late 1950's. The company is debt free which is a very important safeguard for people storing their goods. The company continues its policy of making donations in accordance with the increase in business and in the last few years has made substantial charitable donations to Tallaght Hospital, Fr Peter McVerry Trust, Tallaght Advice Centre, Lesotho Build Project, etc