Ask Ottawa movers what breaks a move and many will say the same thing: the gap. The house sells Friday, the new one closes in three weeks, and a family's entire household needs somewhere to be. Short-term storage with Discount Moving & Storage is designed for exactly that window — days to a few months — with the move-in, the hold, and the delivery priced as one plan.
This is different from renting a unit for a month of DIY weekends. Our crew moves your household in a day, the inventory stays with the storage, and delivery is booked around your real closing — including the all-too-common "closing moved, please hold" phone call.
The closing gap: how it usually plays out
A typical Ottawa gap: sell in May, close on the new home in June, three weeks of in-between. Option one is the hotel-and-suitcase route while your things sit in storage. Option two is a staggered plan where the household goes to storage on your sell date and delivers on your buy date. Either way, the storage leg should be planned in the original quote — adding it later is possible but never as smooth.
Renovation gaps work the same way with a twist: you're living in the home while part of it is stored, so delivery-back is staged — rooms return as the work completes. Downsizers split gaps three ways: new condo, family members' homes, and storage, in one coordinated move. Our downsizing page maps that version.
Priced and scheduled like a service, not a scramble
Short-term storage is quoted upfront: the move-in leg, the monthly storage by space used, and the delivery leg — all in writing, with the dates provisional where closings are involved. When a closing shifts (and they do), one call adjusts delivery; the storage simply continues. You're not renegotiating with anyone mid-gap because there's nobody to renegotiate with — it's all one company.
Duration is genuinely flexible: two weeks, six weeks, a season. If the gap turns out to be longer than planned, nothing changes except the storage line — the inventory, the crew continuity, and the delivery promise all carry over into longer-term arrangements seamlessly.