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Grand Designs on Expandastore

The Expandastore has made it to the tv screens of the nation, courtesy of the new Grand Designs series.

The Expandastore, Extraspaces's flat pack building store was sourced by A.Reay who has recently completely restored, redesigned and rebuilt his family's home, the Dairy Cottage near Ringwood, after a chimney fire consumed the thatched roof and the house. Fortunately no-one was injured.

Not phased by the thought of a complete re-build Alex and his family got to work. The resulting impressive house build was documented by Grand Designs.

Alex sourced an Expandastore for temporarily siting outside the house and storing tools in.

I was looking for somewhere to store my tools, as some had ‘gone missing’ and wanted something more attractive than a storage container and I found the Expandastore from a search on the web.

The company that had supplied the timber for our house had one of the galvanized stores and they recommended it as well.

So I contacted Extraspace and explained what I needed for the project here and they delivered. We assembled it at the front of our house, for convenience and nobody notices it, it blends in, even my wife says that it can stay here.

It was easy to assemble, it took 3 of us half an hour, in the wind and the rain - and there's lots of space inside, lots more than I imagined. So we're storing tools in here on the shelves and we're going to add a workbench.

I love it it's great, you can even store stuff on the roof, I'm beginning to customize it too, I have added an additional digilock, just for quick access without the keys. And it's still portable, if I want I could take it down, put it on the back of the trailer and take it elsewhere.

Compared to the price of renting a container, getting this was a no-brainer.

Extraspace TransPAK offices complete

Extraspace is busy installing it's new office building in Lingfield, using the TransPAK system, which worked out as the most affordable and fast accommodation solution for the needs of the company for the foreseeable future.

The company's new office location is the culmination of a long planning process that will bring together various parts of the business that to date have been operating from different locations.

This includes, the building stock, the transportation fleet, the hire fleet, the building workshops and of course the operations and sales team.

The new site will ease communication logistics and also provide showroom facilities for customers to be able to view the building range and even make an on-site purchase, so they can even drive away with a building on the back of their truck.

Extraspace are now trading from these premises and the building display area should be open soon.

Professional Builder Awards

The popularity of our flat-pack Stores and Kabins, has been noticed by Professional Builder, who recently published it's list of favourite products as voted for by its readers, their unique reader enquiry service has delivered Extraspace regular sackloads of enquiries.

Both models of the Expandastore and the Expandakabin were demonstrated by the Professional Builder team (see our brochure for pics), with much enthusiasm, thanks guys.

The Expandastore and the Expandakabin both received the accolade of Product of the Year 2006.

Korean Adventure

After many months in the planning, Martyn and I set off, our goal was to erect and install special accommodation buildings to compliment our bespoke x-ray housings developed for the Korean customs.

Due to the time difference we arrived at that moment when your body says ‘time for bed’ and our host, in an upbeat and excited state, says ‘work begins in one hour!’

The moment we saw the facilities and the eagerness of the local labour force, our early morning motivation soared. Although lacking some basic equipment, the locals could not do enough to help. Quick to learn, they were very soon self sufficient in erecting the TransPAK buildings.

There was some pressure to get the first buildings onto site at the docks, and in a matter of days we were delivering the first batch. The port, the second largest in S.E Asia, was a jungle of steel containers.

After a few foundation problems, the buildings were craned into position and ready for our clients to make operational.

We didn't get much chance to sample many of the local delights, but late night walks around the markets gave an insight into the bustling economy based on trade and barter.

Did you eat any dog? Seems to be the first question on most peoples lips. I don't know, but we had a Korean meal where the beef was certainly strange!.

Like all these trips you work hard to accomplish as much as possible, and hope to meet your clients' aspirations. I believe we did, and returned home tired but better informed of other cultures, and certainly happy for our experience.