Short-Term Storage in Portsmouth, NH | Smart Move

Climate-controlled short-term storage on the Seacoast, level on heat and humidity all year, carrying your household when a date falls out of sync

Most relocations hit a window where your belongings have nowhere to go. Maybe the people buying your house close before you can close on the next one. Maybe the contractor blows past the promised completion date. Maybe one lease ends weeks before the new building hands you keys, or a posting at Pease or the shipyard sets your timeline by a report date you did not pick. Booking a self-storage unit and carrying your own cartons in, then out again later, is the tiring and pricey way through it. We offer a cleaner option: climate-controlled storage that Smart Move runs in-house, where the same crew that picks up and stores your things is the crew that brings them back, start to finish.

Around here, the climate control earns its keep, it is the whole point. A muggy coastal July and a string of January nor’easters and ice are rough on anything sitting in an ordinary unheated unit: joints loosen and crack, upholstery pulls in dampness, electronics and instruments deteriorate, and leather and lacquer start to check. The space we keep stays level on both temperature and humidity all year, so what you put in is what you get back. As each piece comes off the truck it is blanketed, wrapped, stacked snug, and logged by number, which means nothing slips through the cracks when it is time to bring it back. Expect climate-controlled storage about $110 to $280 a month by unit size, quoted up front.

People who use it are usually stuck between a pair of dates: a closing that lands before the purchase, a renovation overrunning while the furniture waits, a lease with no overlap, a shipyard or Pease transfer set by a report date rather than any move date. We will hold a household for as little as two weeks or for most of a year, then return it on a day you choose, every time on our trucks and our crew, no leased locker or third-party driver anywhere in the picture. Folding it into a larger move? Attach the storage to our local moving or long-distance moving, and a single crew runs the whole sequence under one bill.

Send us the two dates, the day you must vacate and the day the next place is ready, and we price the full run, the collection, the months in storage, and the redelivery, as a single job. Get a written quote and we will respond within one business hour.

What’s Included

  • Climate-controlled space kept level on heat and humidity through every Seacoast season, never an unheated locker
  • Collection, holding, and redelivery on one crew, nobody else touching it along the way
  • Each piece blanketed, wrapped, and stacked snug before it ever goes into the space
  • A numbered log made as your household comes off the truck
  • Terms anywhere from a fortnight to most of a year, climate-controlled storage about $110 to $280 a month by unit size
  • Redelivery scheduled for whenever the next place is finally ready
  • Up to $1M in cargo coverage for every day your things stay with us
  • The whole sequence, collection through redelivery, priced and run as a single job on one bill

What Does It Cost?

Flat-rate or hourly — a 2-mover crew from $135/hr, flat bands from $420

2-mover crew, truck, blankets & dollies included — with hourly at $135 / $175 / $225 or a locked flat rate by home size.

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What Portsmouth Movers Say

Sarah B.
Sarah B.
downtown Portsmouth · Yelp
★★★★

“Booked these guys for our condo near Market Square and it went fine overall. Kayla had the elevator reservation and the COI squared away with the building manager before the date, which I appreciated, and the crew was careful with the corners in that narrow hallway. Knocked off a star only because they ran about thirty minutes behind the morning window and I had to text twice for an arrival time. Once they got there, though, the whole thing moved fast and the quote held to the dollar.”

Matt D.
Matt D.
the South End · Google
★★★★★

“We have one of the old houses in the South End, no driveway, one-way street, the works, and I figured moving day would be a nightmare. Tyler walked the route first, figured out where the truck could legally sit, and his crew threaded our furniture out the front without a single ding on those old door casings. Honestly the best money we spent on the whole sale.”

Emily R.
Emily R.
Atlantic Heights · Google
★★★★★

“Couldn't be happier. Two-bedroom over near Atlantic Heights, the boys had us loaded and unloaded in half a day and the flat rate was exactly what Cole wrote down. No sales tax in NH and no surprise fees from Smart Move, so that was a good day all around.”

Service FAQ

What makes your storage better than a rented self-storage unit?

Two big reasons. The space is climate-controlled, so a muggy coastal summer and a run of winter nor'easters and ice will not loosen the joints, dampen the upholstery, or check the finishes the way an unheated locker does. And our crew does the loading and unloading, so you skip carrying your own household in and out twice between trucks.

How long can you keep my belongings?

As little as two weeks, or close to a full year. The whole service is built for this kind of gap, a closing landing before the purchase, a renovation running over, a lease with no overlap, so nothing locks you into a long contract. Plan on climate-controlled storage about $110 to $280 a month by unit size, quoted up front.

Does the same crew handle storage and redelivery?

Yes. Whoever loads your household drives it into our climate-controlled space and pulls it back out when the day arrives. No leased locker and no third-party driver enter into it; your things travel on our trucks and rest in our space throughout, under a single job and a single bill.

How do you keep track of what is stored?

Each item is logged by number as it comes off the truck, so the count matches both going in and coming out. Everything is blanketed, wrapped, and stacked snug rather than heaped, which stops furniture from chafing or leaning into itself across the weeks or months it waits.

Are my things insured the entire time they're stored?

Yes. The $1M cargo coverage rides with your household every single day it is held, from the collection through the final redelivery into the new place. It runs from $0.60/lb released value up to a full-value protection option, with a 9-month claim window, all of it constant across the whole storage span.

Tell Us the Basics, Get a Written Price

We send back a single written figure for the job, most often the same hour. Asking is free, and it ties you to nothing.

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