Home Summer Heat Protection

Phew, it’s heating up in North Van this summer 2023 and it’s only going to get hotter. Make sure your home is ready to tackle this heat. There are a few things you can do to get ready for the new weather, from colour changes to gardening, North Shore Mini Storage has you covered.

How to Prepare Your Home for The Heat

Service The AC

Home in North Van without working AC? That might be a problem for you. Make sure your AC is in tip-top shape before the real heat starts to arrive. We know running AC is expensive, so try turning it off during the night and using fans instead.

Garden in The Evening

The days are long, the sun is hot, and no home is incomplete without a nice garden. We feel your pain, it’s much too hot to water those flower during the day. So switch it up and garden in the late evening. You will be cooler and your garden will absorb more water that way.

Gone is The Winter Wardrobe

Big jackets, puffy pants, time to store those items away. Choose a local self storage facility and store any winter items away. You will be amazed at how much you declutter your space when the seasonal items aren’t lying around.

Dark to Light

Ditch anything dark inside your home. This means curtains, bedding, upholstery, literally anything dark should go. Why? Because dark things absorb the heat, making your home much hotter than it needs to be. Get some white window curtains and let all that light reflect away. Allowing sunlight on dark fabric is a recipe for fading so you are protecting your stuff as well.

Follow these instructions and we are sure you will beat that ever so hot North Van heat. By following these tips, you will also save money!

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Mike Olsen

18:58 16 Oct 19

This is inexpensive storage that operates 100% as advertised - they do not offer 24/7 access and do not charge 24/7 access pricing. They are incredibly responsive to requests to unlock doors and provide access. It is not fancy but if you need a clean, dry place to store your stuff, you can't beat these guys. Don't expect bells and/or whistles but you also won't be paying for them.

Dave Shirlaw

01:54 10 Jun 19

Have to phone to have buildings unlocked. Annoying.

megan chow

23:06 21 May 19

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01:04 25 Sep 18

Prices are 1/2 the price of other storage units but it shuts down (locked gates) from 10 am - 6 pm except if you have the enormous ground level outside facing units. Those hours are impossible. The technology getting items up to the second story is an actual forklift thats made stationary. You balance your items up the forklift (and you raise the wooden pallet up yourself) Then you must walk up stairs and hope their is a dolly available to wind precariously around tiny turning hallways. Budget carpentry and ancient carpet in the units. The trolleys sound and feel like their from 1980's and are either coached to disobey or they keep their own counsel. They say its secure but I had a neighbor pick something up and they weren't even asked for permission. I explicitly stated only I was to have access. They said they do not let it happen. The locks are your own, but the flip closure is attached by 3/4 wood screws easily and possibly quite quietly could be opened and emptied with no one batting an eye. A kid could detach it with anything. They have "24 hour security" which means a guy lives on site. Does he/she have CCTV access? Probably not, nor would you want that job. Are there motion sensors? Not likely as sometimes the lights won't turn on and finding a switch in the straggly wandering corridors is impossible. They do not offer insurance. You have to sign forms saying all the things you will and won't do, but they are not liable if anything happens: theft, fire, water, vandals, pests etcSo despite all those complaints, its still 4/5 only because of the prices.