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C R STORAGE LIMITED · TIVIDALE · OLDBURY

Shutter up.
Stock in.
Floor swept.

Warehousing and unit storage run from a single depot in the Black Country, with the general cleaning of the units and the premises around them carried out by the same crew that cuts the keys. Plain steel space, kept dry, handed back swept.

  • Footprints 25–150 sq ft
  • Access by arrangement
  • B69 3NA
  • Warehousing · unit storage · cleaning

The yard

25

Smallest footprint, sq ft

150

Largest footprint, sq ft

B69

Postcode district, Oldbury

The yard sits off Palmerston Drive in Tividale, on the Oldbury side of the Black Country. It is a working depot in the plainest sense: roller shutters, painted bay lines, a swept apron, and a run of steel units that hold other people’s goods while those people get on with everything else.

The trade here is kept deliberately narrow. Dry, lockable floor space is one half of it. The other half is the cleaning that keeps every unit, corridor and stretch of yard fit to hand back at short notice. Both halves are run through the same gate by the same hands, which is the whole reason the place stays tidy.

Goods that arrive boxed, palletised or shrink-wrapped settle in quickly. Anything unusual gets talked through by email first, so the right bay is standing ready before the van turns in off the road.

Palmerston Drive is a quiet address, and the depot keeps it that way. Visits are booked, vans are met at the gate, and the shutter comes down again once the goods are settled. Quiet suits storage; things rest better in a yard where every arrival is expected and every departure is signed off at the door.

Unit visualiser

Pick a footprint and watch the floor redraw. The tile scales at true ratio, one crate silhouette is stacked for roughly every twelve and a half square feet, and the fits list keeps its claims modest — this is a guide to shape and volume, never a promise of availability. For what stands empty in a given week, write to the depot.

50 sq ft · a square of equal area is about 7.1 ft by 7.1 ft · 4 crate silhouettes drawn

What it honestly takes

  • The contents of one cleared room
  • Boxed stock for a market pitch
  • Site consumables and small plant
  • Bicycles and sports gear on hooks
Drawn as a square of equal area, one crate for each twelve and a half square feet of floor.
How the drawing arrives at its figures

The arithmetic is short. Each footprint is treated as a square of equal area, so the side is the square root of the floor figure — a 100 sq ft floor draws as ten feet by ten. The crate line grants one silhouette for each twelve and a half square feet, rounded to the nearest whole crate, which is why 25 sq ft draws two and 150 draws twelve. The tile itself is a single flat surface tipped into an isometric view; the scale applied to it is the ratio of side lengths, with 150 sq ft standing as the full-size reference. Real units are rectangles, so treat the square as a stand-in for area and let the fits column carry the practical meaning.

Footprints laid flat — the same guide as the visualiser, in plain figures
Footprint A square of equal area Honestly fits
25 sq ft 5.0 ft by 5.0 ft Boxed archives and deed files, seasonal kit, flat-packed furniture stood on edge, hand tools for a single trade.
50 sq ft 7.1 ft by 7.1 ft The contents of one cleared room, boxed stock for a market pitch, site consumables and small plant.
75 sq ft 8.7 ft by 8.7 ft A one-bedroom flat stacked to the wall, two pallets with walking room, shop fittings between refits.
100 sq ft 10.0 ft by 10.0 ft A two-bedroom house with furniture, three or four pallets with access, trade stock with a picking aisle.
150 sq ft 12.2 ft by 12.2 ft A larger house move held in one place, six pallets in two straight rows, a contractor’s site kit and materials.

Site board

The board by the gate, kept current. What it says at the moment:

ACCESS // BY ARRANGEMENT. WRITE AHEAD AND THE GATE IS OPEN FOR YOUR SLOT.

GOODS // DRY, BOXED OR PALLETISED STOCK SUITS THE FLOORS BEST. ASK FIRST ABOUT ANYTHING HEAVY, WET OR AWKWARD.

HOUSEKEEPING // EVERY UNIT IS SWEPT, AIRED AND LOOKED OVER BETWEEN LETS.

LOADING // KEEP THE APRON CLEAR. SHUTTER FULLY UP BEFORE ANYTHING IS CARRIED THROUGH.

POST // depot@crstorage.space IS READ AT THE DEPOT AND ANSWERED FROM IT.

Lines change as the depot changes. The board is the plain record of how the place is run, and the same wording applies whether it is read at the gate or on this page.

Cleaning of units and premises

The cleaning side of the business exists because the storage side demands it, and it is carried out on the company’s own units and premises. It is unglamorous work done on a steady rhythm, and it is why a unit here is handed back in the state it was handed out.

Between lets

A unit comes back, and before the next key is cut it is swept to bare floor, aired with the shutter up, and looked at properly under a lamp. Door runners are brushed out, the hasp gets a drop of oil, and any mark of damp or damage is chased to its cause. Packaging left behind at the end of a hire is cleared the same day it is found.

Around the premises

Corridors, stairwells and the shared routes to each unit are kept clear and clean as a matter of routine. The yard is walked for glass, loose straps and broken pallet wood, and the approach stays passable for whatever needs to reach a door. Shutters, frames and door furniture are washed down through the year as part of ordinary upkeep.

  • Sweep-outs to bare floor between one hire and the next
  • Corridor, stairwell and shared-route cleaning
  • Yard and loading-apron upkeep
  • Washing down of shutters, frames and door furniture
  • End-of-hire waste and packaging cleared away
  • Checks for damp, damage and anything left in place

Cleaning is booked into the week the way lettings are booked into the ledger, so it happens whether the yard is busy or slack. A slack week is simply the week the deep jobs get done — the back corners, the high sills, and the door runners that only start to squeak when winter gets into them.

Depot

One email covers everything: say what the goods are, roughly how much of them there is, and when they need to be in. A reply sets a slot, and the shutter is up when the van arrives. Access is by arrangement, which keeps the yard calm and every visit expected.

  1. Write — what the goods are, roughly how much of them, and the week that would suit.
  2. Reply — a footprint is suggested from the guide above and a slot at the gate is offered.
  3. Arrive — the bay is swept, the shutter is up, and the apron is clear for the van.
  4. Settle — goods in, door locked, key handled, and the yard goes quiet again.

Post is answered in plain terms — a footprint, a slot, and anything worth knowing before the van is loaded. If the guide above already settles the size question, say so, and the reply gets shorter still.

depot@crstorage.space

6 Palmerston Drive
Tividale
Oldbury
B69 3NA
United Kingdom

Units interlock around one marked gate. Every visit passes it.