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Whatever you keep in there

A house move, spare stock or a van's worth of tools. One policy covers the contents of your container.

What's covered

Loss or damage to your contents at the storage facility, up to your sum insured, caused by:

  • Fire, lightning or explosion
  • Theft or attempted theft
  • Riot, civil commotion, strike or malicious damage
  • Flood or storm
  • Smoke
  • Escape of water or oil
  • Subsidence or collapse of the storage facility
  • Impact by vehicles, aircraft or falling objects

Also included

Transit
Fire, explosion or theft from an enclosed car or commercial vehicle, moving your contents to or from the storage facility in the UK.
New for old
Items under three years old, with proof of purchase, ownership and value.
Replacement locks
Locks or padlocks damaged by a covered event, including fitting and keys.

Theft cover applies where there is forcible and violent entry or exit.

  • Accidental damage
  • Wear and tear, gradual deterioration or mechanical breakdown
  • Theft where there is no evidence of forcible and violent entry
  • Losses outside the insured storage facility, unless in transit
  • Items not owned by you
  • Goods stored in non-professional or unsecured facilities
  • Moth, vermin or infestation damage
  • Items excluded under the policy, such as hazardous or illegal goods
  • Losses from failure to meet security or eligibility requirements
Sum insured
£1,000 to £50,000
Single item, specified
£10,000
Single item, unspecified
£5,000
Valuables
Up to £5,000 in total
Collections
Up to £10,000 in total
Pedal cycles
Limit on your schedule
Transit
£5,000 per incident
Replacement locks
£250
Paper documents
Reprint costs only

Valuables, collections and pedal cycles are covered up to the limit shown in your schedule. If no pedal cycle limit is shown, pedal cycles are not covered. Theft claims need evidence, such as a police report. Insure for the full replacement value, or a claim may be reduced. No transit cover while the vehicle is unattended. Replacement locks are £250 per incident and in total per period of insurance, within the sum insured.

  • Professionally operated and purpose-built for storage
  • Run by a company whose primary business is storage
  • CCTV surveillance
  • Controlled access, such as staff or secure key-code entry
  • Fire detection systems
  • Complies with the storage operator's rental or licence agreement

A summary of the policy summary (IPID) and policy wording. The policy wording has the full terms.

Not sure what it's all worth?

Tap what's in your container and we'll add it up. Typical values, so change the total if yours differ.

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a month, illustrative£3.27

Covered in three steps

  1. 1
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  2. 2
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    Yearly£29.21

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  3. 3
    You're coveredCover starts on the date you choose

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Do I have to buy my storage site's own insurance?

£
Your storage site, a year £156.00
Storage Shield, a year £29.21
You'd save each year£126.79

For £2,000 of contents. Illustrative price. Check what each policy covers before comparing on price.

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