Posted by Brian Quick on Tue, Mar 09, 2010 @ 08:29 AM
It's coming close to Spring time and we wanted to put an offer out on our blog to see if there is any response from the blog alone.
If you are reading this, and you are interested in renting a storage container, mention the Blog promotion and get one month free rental. Minimum 3 month rental term. Delivery and tax not included.
Rent for 2 months and get the 3rd free.
This promotion will run for March only.
Thanks for reading the Mini Warehousing blog!
Posted by Brian Quick on Thu, Dec 03, 2009 @ 08:10 AM
Mini Warehousing is proud to announce a charity project called Containers 2 Clinics. The project involves the use of storage containers being retrofit into a clinic where 3rd would nations can deploy them in remote areas to accomodate women and children getting quality healthcare in their community.
The link to their website: http://www.containers2clinics.org/
Containers to Clinics (C2C) is a non-profit, charitable initiative that seeks to improve the health of women and children by providing access to primary healthcare through networks of converted shipping container clinics.
Clinics are staffed by local health professionals in-country. C2C's approach to rural medical care is designed to strengthen the entire healthcare system of a country from the bottom up by building capacity to treat illness locally. C2C clinics focus on improving the lives of women and children through vaccinations, safe pregnancy and delivery, and health education. C2C's model allows for standard design and operations and for replication across regions.
The project is headed up by the founder Elizabeth Sheehan who has worked around the world in humanitarian efforts to increase the availability of healthcare to developing nations.
Mini Warehousing is proud to have been a part of this project. The clinics will be used to help some of the many people who are dying due to easily preventable diseases.
Recent WHO statistics were released which exposed the human cost to this lack of Medical care:
"Every day 1500 women die from pregnancy- or childbirth-related complications and just under twenty-five thousand children under the age of five die from diarrhea, pneumonia, and other preventable diseases."
We wish Containers 2 Clinics the best possible future as they tackle this great humanitarian effort.
Posted by Brian Quick on Thu, Oct 01, 2009 @ 08:30 AM
Containers for houses or offices have been quite the hot topic at Mini Warehousing. Recently, we have partnered with Stack Design Build, http://www.stackdb.com/harris.html in a project named Box Office 460. http://www.boxoffice460.com/
It's quite a great design that incorporates over 32 storage containers made into an environmentally friendly, energy efficient office building. There will be approximately 12 office/studio spaces available for lease.
Watch the timelaps video here:
This project and others like it have begun gaining ground speed. The change in thought needed to think with buildable modules is drastic from standard "stick built" structures. Stack Design Build and Mini Warehousing worked for months on issues that would or could come up with different methods of design ideas.
As in a lot of "Green" projects and practices, the costs savings aren't dramatic if any at all. Yet the gain is realized in natural resource savings and our earth's conservation.
Keep an Eye on Mini Warehousing, Inc.....More exciting projects coming!
See below:
By building The Box Office, 94 tons of upcycled steel will be put back into productive use.
This project will be a model of a small, green (energy-efficient, sustainable) building, using 25% less energy than a conventional new office building. The main goal of the design team was to engineer a well-insulated building, utilizing high performing windows and implement the most efficient HVAC system feasible for the project.
This building will be all-electric with no direct use of fossil fuels. All heating and cooling will be with small, decentralized, high efficiency air-to-air heat pumps. Also, typical lighting densities will be 0.6 watts/sf. One reason for the reduced load is the projects implementation of dual-source lighting; a combination of overhead lighting with daylight response sensors that measure the natural day light and task lighting. The site will reduce stormwater run-off into the combined storm sewer by 67% through the use of bio-swales (also known as rain gardens) which allow storm water to infiltrate back into the ground where, through phyto-remediation, the plants contribute to the filtration of the water. The Box Office will have comfortable indoor air quality due to the use of environmentally-friendly interior finishes (non-petroleum-based insulation, low VOC products and no products with formaldehyde, for example), filtered exterior air, and accessible operable windows.
Tenants will be able to take advantage of green lease conditions that will provide economic incentives to tenants to maximize energy performance of the green building.
Posted by Brian Quick on Wed, Aug 05, 2009 @ 07:24 PM
Mini Warehousing has partnered with Smart Pack Solutions to help our customers with their boxes and packaging supplies.
Click on our link Click here for boxes, to get your boxes, tape and bubble wrap shipped in one day to your home. No shipping charges and overnight shipping.
We help with kits for rooms that will help you figure out your needs for moving supplies. We also sell specialty boxes for garments and markers for labeling the boxes.
Packing your contents carefully and in an organized fashion will help with the packing and unpacking process. Hopefully, making the operation as pain free as possible. (We know that is not possible)
Please feel free to contact us by calling us at 800-548-5408 should you have any questions.
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Posted by Brian Quick on Wed, Jul 08, 2009 @ 07:19 PM
Mini Warehousing has updated our website to help our customers with finding the information that they need most. Most important was to make the site easy to navigate, while being easy to load for any speed internet connection.
We aren't perfect, so if there is something about the site that isn't working, or you don't like, can you please send us an email to info@miniwarehousing.com so we can correct this problem.
Thank you for your continued support and we look forward to making your experience with Mini Warehousing as easy as possible.
Posted by Brian Quick on Wed, May 06, 2009 @ 08:47 AM
Spring is here, I think. I think we had more warmer days in the winter than the spring, but I'm sure warmer weather is on its way. As well as the Robins that have returned to my yard.
As we get ready for our spring cleaning and get ready to prepare for our emergence from our winter confinement, take a look at how Mini Warehousing Storage containers can help you with your spring projects.
#1 Looking to clean out a basement, garage, workshop or attic? We can deliver a container to your site, you can move it out of the area you are cleaning and use it as a holding area while you determine whether it is trash or it is valueable. The contents won't get showered on with the April showers. Once you've cleaned the area, you can now neatly pull the contents from the container and put them back into the original storage spot or into the trash.
#2 Spring Sports need storage too! If you have a Little League team, Pop Warner team, Soccer team, or LaCrosse team that has equipment, but no place to store it, our storage containers work excellent for storing the contents in a clean, dry, secure area. Our units are in new condition, so it will not be an eye sore to have them on your field.
#3 Time to put away the Winter! From Snowblowers and shovels, to ski's, snowmobiles and plows, our containers make a great storage solution to get these items out of the weather and into a secure storage container. They protect from animals making nests, rain causing rust and from the obvious threat of theft of any of these valuable items.
If you know someone with any of these issues, let them know of us and help us help them.
Happy Spring!
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Posted by Brian Quick on Wed, Mar 04, 2009 @ 08:35 AM
So are we there yet???? Is Spring here? Are we in recovery or still recessing in the economy?
Seems like today, everyone we talk to is sitting on the edge of their seat waiting for something to happen to push them one way or another on their decisions to move forward. Whether its homeowners doing renovations or selling their homes, or if its a construction job waiting to proceed. Our whole economy in New England is stuck in a holding pattern. Are we waiting for Spring? Or are we waiting to see when our current state of the economy shifts from the downward spiral to the upward climb.
Either way, the world is not going to wait and the economy isn't going to recover without decisions being made. Decisions to grow or decisions to downsize need to be made so things can progress. So business can happen.
As we go through the final months of winter, start considering what projects you are planning for the spring. Now is the time to be contacting your contractors to get pricing and quotes on your spring projects. As the weather warms, everyone will want to react. The contractors, for those who are left, will be swamped with requests and will be hard pressed to provide competitive pricing and quotes, since their crews will be busy.
If you're a homeowner, mortgage rates are low and can allow you to pull equity from you're home at a lower rate and do those nice additions you have always wanted to get done. You'll save on the cost of borrowing the money, and you'll save on the cost of the work.
If you're a small business, the recent moves by our government has allowed for more credit at attractive rates to help expand you're business. It's the small businesses of the US that need to spend and that have the ability to spend. Now is the time to grow your business. People are shopping everything now. Competitors are closing their doors. Don't leave those customers without a place to shop.
Let's go America! We are tough! We are Strong. We can prevail!
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Posted by Brian Quick on Tue, Sep 09, 2008 @ 08:34 AM
Fall Clean up is upon us and it's time to put away all the summer toys. What better way to store something away for the season, but in a Mini Warehousing Storage Container. Who wants to clog up their garage, shop, warehouse or basement with the stuff that is going to come back out in a short few months anyway? Motorcycles, ATV's, Tractors all need a place to hide and state fire codes also prohibit the storage of those vehicles with gasoline in a building. Our containers are secure, safe, and dry places to keep your investments out of the weather. Our storage containers are a great solution for your businesses too! If you have inventory that won't fit in your warehouse, but can't stay outside, get a storage container. Call us today and we can help solve your storage issue today.
If you mention this article, we will give you a free month rental of a 4 month or more storage container rental.
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Posted by Brian Quick on Thu, Aug 14, 2008 @ 08:16 AM
Thousands of people everywhere use self storage locations and pay to store their stuff at someone else's house. It can be a hassle none of us want to endure, since getting the contents you wish to store to that location is difficult enough. First, you either have to borrow or rent a truck or trailer. Then you have to load all the stuff securely enough to travel down the road. Then, as quick as you loaded it, you have to unload it and repack it again into the storage facility. This whole process of touching your goods 2 times for every move can be quite the head ache and/or back ache. Hopefully you don't break something including yourself.
When you're ready to move the stuff back, you have to go through the same process of moving things twice to get them back to where you wanted them. Another problem is if you need something you packed away, then what? You have to drive to that storage place, dig through your boxes to find what you need and then drive back.
This whole process can be simplified by having the self storage brought to you! This cuts down on a lot of work, headaches and back aches. Mini Warehousing specializes in bringing you the self storage to your site. Our storage containers allow you to load your goods once. Keep them safe at your location and always have access to your things whenever you want. Just in case you need to find the one thing you never thought you would need packed in the back of the storage. It allows you to take more time to carefully pack, since there is no truck or trailer rental that needs to be returned. And therefore more time to unpack too. There is no traveling down the road, so you don't have to worry about the bouncy road trip your grandmother's antique dresser will endure.
The positive advantages of having our Portable on-site storage containers brought to your home are numerous. Give it a second thought, next time you have to store your stuff. It will save you time, money and even your sanity. Give us a call. We'll be happy to help.
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Posted by Brian Quick on Fri, Apr 25, 2008 @ 04:38 PM
Mini Warehousing is always looking for ways to help keep its current, past and future customers on top of what is going on in Mini Warehousing, and the portable storage industry. We will try to use this blog as a location for people to look for ideas on how to become creative portable storage users, so they can maximize their storage space, create solutions for storage issues or ideas on how to make the best of the space they have. We hope you tune in regularly to see what is going on at Mini Warehousing's new blog called "Mini Facts"
Thank you for visiting and please do come again!
Brian Quick,
Vice President of Sales.