Many people with treasures such as works of art and antiques place them in storage. Even items that have no great financial worth but huge sentimental value, can cause devastation if lost or stolen and these are often subjects of removal and storage too.

Removal and storage companies are also useful when it comes to business's relocating. Non important items can be stored for as long as necessary while the new business premises are set up and settled into.

Many customers of removals and storage companies have found themselves in positions of being 'between residences'. Some may be the fabulously wealthy who can afford to have several homes and want to spend months abroad, or cruising their yachts, secure in the knowledge that their possessions are being cared for under the tightest security.

Others may be relocating to a different area or even country and want to take their time house hunting for the perfect property while their sale profits earn them interest in the bank. They would then have their property carefully packed by a meticulous company who is specialised in removals and storage and entrust them to take care of their property.

Many customers of this type of service are looking to scale down their residence once the children have flown the nest. After this many years, a family build up a large amount of items with sentimental value and do not want to sell them or cram them into a smaller property.

Storage is a solution and items can always be rotated between home and storage so that you always get to enjoy everything you own.

Some customers of removal and storage companies are not so fortunate. Thousands of people in the UK lost their homes and contents to the floods last summer and understandably didn't want to lose all of their possessions too.

Removal and storage companies were called in all over the Midlands to pack up what was left of the resident's possessions and care for them in storage facilities around the country until they were in a position to re-settle.

It's not just a simple matter of moving everything to an upper floor away from the water. The air becomes permanently damp and will ruin many resident's possessions while they wait for their homes to dry out. It's also impossible for everyone to fine a willing relative to store all the furniture.

Floods are devastating enough, without having to start from scratch with all furniture as well. This is why removal and storage are good options for people who find themselves in such circumstances.

With the problem of global warming becoming ever more evident, flooding is going to become a frequent problem. Add to this the government's admission that they are largely conceding defeat and leaving the less densely populated areas to the forces of nature by not maintaining flood defences, and it becomes clear that many people are going to be facing similar problems in the near future.