Most moves assume the dates cooperate. Many don't — the new home closes two weeks after the old one, the renovation runs a month long, or a posting sends you somewhere temporary first. Discount Moving & Storage's moving-and-storage service in Ottawa is built for the gap: we move your household out, hold it in our secure storage, and deliver when the destination is ready.
One company runs the whole sequence, which matters more than it sounds. Your furniture is packed and loaded once by our crew, inventoried once, stored under that inventory, and delivered by people working from the same paperwork. No transfers between strangers, no mystery warehousing.
How moving into storage works
Moving day into storage looks like a normal moving day — full protection, wrapping, and a signed inventory — except the truck ends at our facility instead of your new address. Items are stored in their wrapped state, organized by household for straightforward retrieval. Storage is priced by the space your household needs and the time it's there, quoted upfront alongside the move.
Delivery is scheduled when you're ready: days, weeks, or months later. The same inventory governs the outbound leg, and the delivery crew works from the same room-by-room labels. If only part of your household is coming out — say, a new apartment plus a downsized life — we deliver in stages, with downsizing coordination for multi-destination plans.
When Ottawa customers use moving + storage
The classic case is the closing gap: sell in June, move in July, and the in-between is storage rather than a month of borrowed couches. Renovations are the second case — floors being redone, kitchens gutted — where the household needs to be out for weeks. Job relocations are the third: a temporary landing while the family home search finishes. And downsizers use storage as a decision space — the pieces that might go to the cottage or the kids' homes, held safely while choices get made. Our short-term storage page covers gap scenarios in detail.