Not every move goes straight from one front door to the next. A sale completes before the purchase, a rental ends before the new place is ready, a family moves in with parents while building work finishes. In those gaps your furniture needs somewhere to live, and the simplest answer is usually a removal firm that also stores.
LMD Logistics runs removals and storage from the same yard at O'Briens Yard on Durham Road in Birtley, DH3 2TB. That matters more than it sounds: the same crew loads your home, drives it a short distance to storage, and later brings it back out, without a second company, a second van or a hand-over in between.
How a move-store-move job runs
- Survey or call: we agree what is going into storage and what is travelling with you.
- Moving out: the crew packs (if booked), loads and records the items going into store.
- Into the Birtley yard: goods go straight from the van into storage, usually the same day.
- Waiting period: short or long term, on a flexible contract with no fixed end date to guess.
- Redelivery: when you have a date, ring us and we book the delivery into your new home.
Decide what stays with you
The single most useful thing you can do before a storage move is make a "live out of it" pile. Everything you need for the interim period, clothes for the season, work equipment, school things, medicines, chargers and paperwork, should be kept apart and clearly marked so it travels with you rather than disappearing to the back of storage.
Anything you will not need for months is ideal for storage: spare beds, dining furniture, books, garden furniture in winter, boxed kitchenware. Items that you might need at short notice are better packed last so they are loaded last and easiest to retrieve.
Packing for storage is not the same as packing for a day
Boxes that only need to survive a two hour drive can get away with a lot. Boxes that will sit stacked for weeks need to be sturdy, full to the top so they do not crush, and labelled on the side as well as the top so they can be read in a stack.
If you would rather hand it over, our packing service uses double walled cartons, wardrobe boxes and room-by-room labels, which also makes the eventual redelivery far quicker to unload.
Why a local yard helps
Because storage sits in Birtley, jobs across Chester-le-Street, Gateshead, Washington, Durham and Newcastle do not carry a long haulage leg to a distant warehouse. For a delayed chain that can change from week to week, a short hop to the yard keeps the plan flexible.
Our storage has immediate availability and flexible contracts, so a completion that slips by a fortnight does not mean renegotiating anything. You simply ring when the new keys are in hand.
Timing the redelivery
We are open Monday to Sunday, 8am to 8pm, which gives a lot more room to fit a redelivery around a completion than a weekday-only firm can. Give us as much notice as you can once you have a firm date, and tell us about access at the new property, especially parking, stairs and lifts, so we send the right van and crew size.
If a completion is uncertain, it is worth reading our guide on storing between completion dates, which deals specifically with chains and delays.
Is it cheaper than two separate firms?
Usually, because the crew and van used for the move out are the same ones that take goods into store, and there is no second collection trip. Every move is quoted on its own details, so ask for the removal and the storage as one quote and you will see exactly how the two parts fit together.
Common questions
Related services
- Storage in Birtley — Short or long term storage at competitive rates with immediate availability.
- Removals in Birtley — Small or large home moves over short or long distances — fully insured.
- Packing Services in Birtley — Full or part packing with proper materials, so everything is box ready before the van arrives.
Areas this applies to
- Birtley — DH3
- Chester-le-Street — DH2 / DH3
- Washington — NE37 / NE38