where do people find cheap storage yards/workshops ?

[ALL4SHOW]

i know a few people on here have got yards & workshops so i thought i would ask where you find them as the places ive seen are silly money new units or dont want cars there ? all i want is somewhere that i can leave a car,work on it,store the stuff i need or break it up for spares but all the places i new years ago have been knocked down/rebuilt so anyone in the northwest no any farmers with an empty barn ??? as the one i thought i had has changed his mind again

[Cookie]

I know what your saying m8, I have had a lockup/garage now for past 3 years, 1st one for a year and the one i'm in now, just over 2 years, but always on a knife edge wether or not this is the last month or not before blokey sells up or knocks it down

 

I got the 1st one through word and mouth, and my present one was advertised in local free paper, I was lucky as i was a late caller and bloke had a list of folk that wanted it and had promised it to a mini-specialist but man was a day late with deposit, I was half way down list and all the numbers he rang b4 me were either off or no answer, so I was bang in there chucked my 500 notes deposit in his hand and was in! more luck than anything, right place, right time and all that

 

With regards to all old places being knocked down. it's exactly the same around here, Barry docks used to be huge and full to the brim with old garages/units, no drama in finding one then, you basically had your pick, not anymore though, same as a lot of dock areas now, being demolished and having fancy waterfront apartments built there is hardly anything left of the 'old skool docks' that i grew up around

 

They do built some new units though but as you say they won't even talk to you as soon as you mention cars, and if they do they want £700 a month before any bills etc to rent a poxy 1100 sq ft

 

 

I would say your best bet is to go to local letting agents as sometimes they get lock up come onto their books, scour the papers or as you say go and find a farmer who wants a bit of cash in his hand on the qt every month

 

Wish you luck in your search mate

[bortaf]

Ask a banger racer or the local small car dealer they usually have a lock up on a farm that'll rent you a space

I've got 4 parking spaces in an old greenhouse £65 a month

bloody hot in the summer though

[ALL4SHOW]

cookie - farmers are a strange breed as ive been to see loads of them all run down non working farms so wouldnt damage any produce, but look at you like you have 10 heads !!! think some of them are ARMISH ??? then the others love to store caravans as they dont have to do anything as they just sit there & move once a year or they have been bought by someone to devolope into there estate when the buy there lord & lady of the manor title of the internet the problem with letting agencies now is all the messing about as i no a few places now that are now in what they call "brown belt land" so it limits what the land can be used for plus they are all on about H&S,fire regs,waste licenses, liabilatey insurance !!!!!! oh well i'll keep dreaming i even spoke to one bloke that has a big barn/shed & a huge empty compound round it & he stores industrial bins & skips in the shed (only takes up about 1/4 of the barn ) asked him compound is for commercial vechiles (should have got a recovery truck !!!! ) & this made me laugh the skips & bins are inside "so they dont get damaged & wet "

[oxb1l]

I was told about someone in Edinburgh who was renting storage spaces for £25 a week (parking only)

 

I would need to be keeping and able to work on my cars for anything like that,on the other hand my m8 has got space for about 10 cars in a farm for £100 a month (mines has been there for a year for fitting wings and sills to a Transit )

 

L8R Bill

[mossy]

im looking to rent a garage down in brighton....for a small no power or ex council one on a pikey estate im looking at 100 a month sometimes even more

 

I need to find a farmer!

[bortaf]

Council lockups on my estate are £15 a week or free if you unscrew the boarded up ones and use em on the quiet

[mossy]

i cant get a council garage, as im not a council tenant

[Mk1-Maher]

Where abouts in london are you bortaf? dont suppose youve got one of these spaces going spare for a bit of cash in hand in need of a space for my mk1 escort 4 door project oh and mossy i guess brighton and hove council is different but i know for a fact that merton council (london/surrey) you dont need to be a tennant im on the waiting list myself £9 a week just have to get one first

[antz]

im lucky as one guy owns about 5 houses on our street and my mum is mates with him. he had a garage full of junk so i had a word and rent it at £35 a month

 

no power, warmth and it leaks BUT its only 2 doors away, i share a 40ft long driveway with a neighbour and i have right of way cos he owns the driveway AND the garage is about 1.5 cars long

[bortaf]

Mines full at the mo sorry

it's in braintree though

yards near me are £75 a week for 3 cars, even out side the M25 tis whhy i have to travel but i go over there for a whole weekend and kip in me van

[Mk1-Maher]

your lucky men antz and bortaf

[jamesmk1]

i had 2 council garages for just over 5 year i think that was only about £15 a week for the two.

[tazrocks88]

im lucky i have a few mates with alot of land one of which lets me store my car there free it will be at home on the drive when its done but till then i needed somewhere dry!!!

[ALL4SHOW]

ive got to lock ups at the minute but there 30 mins drive from apart & i cant get to the cars cos of stuff in them they are cheap but when you add them up over the month plus getting to them i thought i would try & find somewhere bigger in one place instead of gettting afew places dotted everywhere i think with 8000+ members we should give £1 a week & buy some land & rent it out OLDSKOOL STORAGE