Redoing a kitchen, replacing the floor, repainting the flat: either way, the rooms have to be emptied. And when you are living there during the works, the sofa ends up in the bedroom, the table in the hallway, and boxes everywhere.
The problem is not only the discomfort. The works take longer, because the trades are working around your furniture instead of getting on with it.
Three reasons to move the furniture out
- An empty room is renovated faster, and the risk of damage drops accordingly.
- Your furniture picks up neither dust nor paint. A sheet thrown over a sofa in the middle of a building site protects very little.
- You keep one liveable room. Sleeping without plaster dust for three weeks counts for something.
What size unit to plan for
In Belmont-sur-Lausanne the sizes fall into two families. The small units, 1.5 to 2 m³, take boxes and loose items. From 9 m³ upwards come the volumes that hold furniture. For a renovation, the benchmarks are:
- A studio or one-bedroom flat: 9 to 12 m³. A 12 m³ unit is CHF 140 per month.
- A two-bedroom flat: 13 to 17 m³. A 15 m³ unit is CHF 162 per month.
- Three bedrooms and above: 18 to 27 m³.
- A single room — a kitchen, a bathroom: plan for the first 9 m³ unit. It is the smallest size that takes furniture; below that, the units are made for boxes.
The full size-by-size breakdown is on the sizes and prices page, and our unit size guide helps you estimate a volume room by room.
One tip that saves space: take apart whatever comes apart — bed, table, shelving. You will easily recover 20 to 30 % of the volume, and that is cubic metres you do not pay for.
Protecting furniture before storing it
- Wrap fragile items — crockery, mirrors, picture frames — in bubble wrap or kraft paper.
- Cover the furniture, paying particular attention to corners and glossy surfaces.
- Do not put textiles straight on the floor: a pallet or a board is enough.
- Label the boxes. When it all goes back, you will be glad you know what is where.
- Let anything damp dry first. A piece cleaned the day before, or carried out in the rain, goes mouldy in a storage unit just as it would anywhere else. It is the single most common unpleasant surprise on collection day — we go into it in our article on the gear you only use every other season.
Heated in winter, dry all year
Wood moves with humidity: an older piece of furniture, a lifted parquet floor or a musical instrument suffer first. Our buildings are heated in winter and stay dry all year — which matters when a project runs from November to February.
A unit nearby, open whenever you need it
During renovations you make repeated trips: moving furniture out room by room, coming back for a forgotten item, gradually putting it all back.
Access is free 24/7, via an app and a personal code. No appointment to make, no opening hours — useful when the electrician announces at seven in the evening that the hallway has to be cleared too.
The Belmont-sur-Lausanne site is minutes from Pully, Lutry, Paudex and La Conversion: no need to cross Lausanne with a loaded van.
The minimum term is one month, and you stop when the works are done.
Tell us what needs to come out and we will tell you what size to plan for: info@c-box.ch. Site viewings by appointment on 021 869 74 87.
