Air-conditioned storage in Bangkok, for the things humidity would ruin
A stable temperature and a controlled humidity, which in this climate is the difference between retrieving a guitar and retrieving a warped one. Asia Relocation Thailand holds electronics, instruments, art, paper, leather and wood in a controlled unit it manages, logged by barcode, released when you ask.
In Thailand the enemy of a stored belonging is not the thief. It is the air. Months of heat and moisture warp a wardrobe, lift the veneer off a desk, corrode the inside of a laptop, spot leather with mould and put a cello out of true. A standard unit is right for furniture and cartons of everyday things; it is wrong for anything that would break your heart to unpack.
A controlled unit holds temperature and humidity within a narrow band, all year, and that is the whole service: a room where the climate does not happen to your goods. Around it we add what makes it usable, a barcode on every item, an inventory you hold, collection by our own crews, and release on request without opening the rest.
Asia Relocation Thailand runs its air-conditioned site in Bangkok, under CCTV and alarms around the clock, and collects from anywhere in the country. It is the unit we recommend, unprompted, whenever a survey turns up instruments, art, archives or electronics heading for ordinary storage.
Held at a steady climate, and what the other two storage services do
Three ways to store with us, and the difference is what the goods are exposed to. Here, to nothing.
Carried by the service
- A controlled unit: temperature and humidity held steady, protection against mould, mildew and pests, in an individually secured space.
- A barcoded digital inventory, item by item at intake, with the record in your hands.
- Collection and packing by our own crew, from your home or office anywhere in Thailand, with the materials sensitive goods need.
- A monitored site: CCTV around the clock, alarms, controlled access, staff present at every visit.
- Access and redelivery on request, one carton or the whole unit, and cover on the declared value as an option.
Volume and figure go in writing after the survey, never from a phone call.
A different service
- Things you want to reach yourself. Everyday furniture and cartons you will keep visiting belong in a unit with your own code: self storage in Bangkok.
- A load that may leave the country. Goods sealed into export-grade timber that travels unopened are reinforced crates.
- The move that brings the goods here. Getting a household from one Thai home to another is our moving service in Thailand, and the crew can drop the sensitive part of the load here on the way.
- Somewhere to live meanwhile. If the instruments are in the unit because the home does not exist yet, temporary housing in Bangkok is the other half of the problem.
Same coordinator, same file; name them in the inquiry.
Five kinds of belongings that the climate would take from you
Same unit, same steady air. What differs is what each one is protected from.
Electronics and IT equipment
Televisions, computers, servers and hardware between two offices. Moisture corrodes what heat does not, and a rack that spent a wet season in an ordinary room rarely boots again. Stored dry, on shelving.
Instruments, art and antiques
A piano, a cello, a canvas, an inlaid chest: the things that warp, crack or bloom with mould when the humidity swings. The unit they should have been in from the start, and the one we recommend before you ask.
Paper and archives
Books, documents, photographs, a company's records. Paper takes on moisture and never gives it back flat. Boxed, labelled, barcoded, and retrievable one carton at a time.
Leather, fabric and wardrobes
Designer clothes, fine fabrics, leather goods and shoes for a household that will not need its winter wardrobe for years. Mould is the risk, and a steady climate is the only real answer to it.
Wine and collections
Bottles, watches, luxury fashion, the collections that collectors and diplomats keep between postings. Held at a steady temperature, logged individually.
Five steps from the survey to a barcode you can ask for
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The needs assessment
What is going in and how sensitive it is. Our storage consultant sorts the load: what needs the controlled unit, what can sit in ordinary storage, what should be crated instead.
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The quotation, and the collection
A figure in writing for the unit, the term and the options. Our crew collects and packs from anywhere in Thailand, or you bring the goods to the site yourself.
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Intake and inventory
Every item or carton barcoded and logged into your digital inventory as it goes in, so that what you retrieve later is found by its code, not by memory.
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Storage at a steady climate
In an individually secured unit where temperature and humidity are held within a narrow band, under CCTV and alarms around the clock, with access controlled and staffed.
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Access and redelivery
Ask for a carton, an item or the whole unit. Access by appointment with our staff present, or redelivery to your address in Thailand, with the inventory updated each time.
Four owners of things the air would spoil
Families with heirlooms and instruments
The piano, the paintings, the books and the electronics that came with the household and cannot sit in a Bangkok garage for a year.
Businesses with equipment and archives
IT hardware between two offices, inventory, records a company must keep dry and reachable. A corporate account, one invoice, one inventory.
Collectors
Wine, antiques, luxury fashion, art. Goods whose value is in their condition, held at a climate that does not change it.
Missions, agencies and NGOs
Long-term storage with a climate that is regulated and a record that is auditable, for goods that rotate with the staff.
One controlled site in Bangkok, collections from the whole country
The air-conditioned unit is in Bangkok; our crews collect from Chiang Mai, Phuket, Pattaya, Hua Hin, Samui and anywhere between.
Controlled storage is a building, not a network: the site is in Bangkok, reachable from the business districts and the expatriate neighbourhoods, on ground that does not flood. That is where the climate is held and where the inventory lives, and it is why we say Bangkok rather than pretend to a controlled unit in every city.
The goods, though, can come from anywhere. A collector leaving Phuket for a posting abroad, a family in Chiang Mai storing a piano, a company in Pattaya between two floors: our crews collect, pack and bring the sensitive part of the load to the controlled site, and the rest can go to ordinary storage or into a crate on the same trip.
What clients ask before storing at a controlled climate
Why does storage in Thailand need air conditioning at all?
What belongs in a climate-controlled unit?
Where is the air-conditioned site?
How do I get something back?
Can you collect and pack for us?
Is the content insured?
How long can I keep a unit?
How is air-conditioned storage priced?
Two other storage services next door
You want a unit you open yourself
Your own code, your own hours, on a flood-free site in the city: for the furniture and cartons you will keep visiting.
Self storage in Bangkok →The whole storage service
Self storage, air-conditioned units and reinforced crates in Thailand, and which of the three fits your load.
Storage services in Thailand →Tell us what is sensitive, and we hold it at a steady climate
A survey, a figure in writing, our crew for the collection if you want it, and a barcode for every item you will one day ask for.
Ask for a controlled unit →