Damaged or dirty walls and worn out carpet in an office can give a bad impression to clientele as well as make the workplace dreary and uninspiring for the employees. Many companies do remodeling every few years in order to correct these problems and others that come up. Often this involves the office shutting down for a week and the employees having time off from work. It also means that the furniture and everything in the office needs to be removed so that the remodeling company has room to do their work quickly and uninhibited. If the furniture were left in the office during the remodeling, the remodelers would most likely have to spend time constantly moving things out of their way which would increase the cost of labor.

Since there is usually not enough storage space on the grounds for everything to be put out of the way during remodeling, the office manager usually decides to rent a nearby self-storage unit to contain all of the furniture and documents that are in the office. Depending on the temperature range in the area and the amount of time that the remodeling will take, the office manager might decide to rent a storage unit that has a controlled temperature in order to protect computers and other sensitive equipment from temperature extremes. During the time that the office is being remodeled, the items from the office are still accessible to the office manager or other designated personnel. If there is a need for something to be retrieved before the remodeling is completed, such as a time-sensitive document, then the office manager does not have to wait to get it from the storage unit.