Imagine a cardboard box that was left in a garage that was hot with six months to go. The odor of it is familiar even before you raise the lid stale, moldy, unsavory. Paper has curled and wreaked in the corners. The pages of a photo album have become mixed. Records have become distorted into shallow bowls of vinyl. The humidity and heat do not proclaim themselves. They just turn up to work and just take down what you wanted to preserve. Climate controlled mini storage is the solution to that problem. Helpful resources!

Imagine it like a dull, constable room – cooler under the floor, damper under the roof and cannot see what goes on outdoors. No sweltering July sun upon the walls. No winter cold oozing through the floor. It is a pocket of controlled air in which your possessions are cloaked, against the extremes which are going to cause a slow, slow decay.

Wooden furniture is one of the most susceptible to it. The material Wood is alive in many aspects – it breathes, and in accordance with changing conditions, expands and contracts. Place a dresser in a place that is not controlled and the drawers start to stick, the joints start to loosen, and the surfaces start to warp. Climate control ensures that wood does not change in dimension hence when one stores a piece of wood, the piece of wood remains the same when one picks it at a later date.

The same should be done with electronics. Old game consoles, monitors, camera gear, all of them have highly sensitive circuits, which moisture is a foe to. Corrosion is slow in its development and one day a machine that was functioning just fine just fails to start. An environment with controlled climate significantly mitigates such a risk.

This is already known to the collectors. Paper based and highly absorbent are comic books, trading cards, vintage vinyl and magazines. Humidity brings about page waving and following it is the mold. Controlled conditions maintain crispness, color and structure.

Clothing is no worse than a metal box, which is baking in the sun. Clothes disintegrate when exposed to constant heat. Leather cracks. Wedding dresses yellow with age. Stable environment retards that degradation a great deal- in effect halting time on the process of aging.

Then there is the comfort element of practicality. People who have carried boxes in a storage unit in August can tell how miserable it is. The interior corridors in climate-controlled facilities are cooled so that entry will not be painful.

The premise is that these units will be dedicated to antiques and high value items. Yet ordinary objects are important as well family photographs, financial records, musical instruments. The thing is, it is not that complicated, the question is: how important these things are to you?

Preservation or slow decay. This distinction is often simply congruent air and closed door.