Balham Storage

JamStorage collects your belongings from your door in SW12, keeps them safe and secure, and returns them when you ask. There’s no van hire, no trip across town, and no need to carry anything further than your front door. It’s a simple way to free up space without moving to a bigger home.

Balham is one of South London’s most flat-heavy neighbourhoods. Its streets are lined with Victorian and Edwardian terraces, many of them long since divided into garden flats and maisonettes. A ground-floor garden flat might have outside space but no loft. An upper-floor flat has the reverse problem, no garden and no garage. The Heaver Estate, the dense grid of roads south of Balham station between Bedford Hill and Balham High Road, is a good example: handsome period terraces converted into flats of every size, with very little built-in storage to go round. When a one-bedroom flat in SW12 rents for somewhere around £1,600 to £1,900 a month, paying to store your seasonal things off-site is far kinder on your budget than trading up to a property with a spare room.

Most people here need a bit of extra space at one point or another. Young professionals commuting into town on the Northern line from Balham station rent first and move often, so they store during the gaps between flats. Families in the larger terraces around Nightingale Triangle and Wandsworth Common accumulate garden furniture, children’s kit, ski gear and Christmas decorations that all have to live somewhere. Homeowners and renters clearing rooms for a kitchen replacement or a bathroom refurbishment need their things kept safe while the work is done. And life has a way of creating storage needs at short notice too, whether that’s a bereavement, a relationship ending, or a leak from the flat above that forces a room to be cleared in a hurry.

We cover the whole of Balham and the SW12 postcode, from Balham High Road and Balham Hill down to Bedford Hill and Hildreth Street, taking in Nightingale Triangle, the Heaver Estate, Cavendish Road, Emmanuel Road, Chestnut Grove, Balham Park Road and the south side of Wandsworth Common. If you’re looking slightly wider than Balham itself, we cover the full borough through our Wandsworth storage service.