Delft Storage — For Rooms That Ran Out of Space

MoverMate stores belongings collected in Delft for €15 a week for a room load and €30 a week for a studio or one-bedroom flat, with a two-week minimum. We come to your address with our own van and driver, take everything away, and bring it back when you need it. Our storage space is in the Den Haag and Delft area, so the van barely travels to reach you — a Delft collection is normally the 1.5-hour minimum of €73.50 plus transport.

Delft is different from the other cities we collect from in one specific way: a lot of people here store things while they are still living in the room. Delft student rooms are small, often 12 to 20 square metres, and a bike, a winter wardrobe, three boxes of course files and a suitcase take up floor space you do not have. Storing the half you are not currently using costs less per week than most people spend on coffee.

The other half of our Delft work is the TU Delft calendar — thesis semesters, internships and graduation, which reliably empty a room for three to six months at a time.

MoverMate is NIWO-licensed and has completed more than 800 moves. Full service details are on the short-term storage page; for moving rather than storing, see the Delft moving service.

Because the room is too small to hold a whole life at once, and the alternative is living in a corridor.

A typical Delft student room is 12 to 20 square metres with a bed, a desk and a wardrobe already in it. What is left over has to go somewhere, and in practice it goes under the bed, on top of the wardrobe and in a pile behind the door. By second year most people are storing their own belongings badly, in their own room, for free.

What comes out of a Delft room most often is seasonal or dormant rather than unwanted. A winter coat and boots in April. A summer bike and camping gear in October. Two boxes of finished course material you are not allowed to throw away yet. A suitcase that lives full-time on a chair. Sports equipment used twice a year.

TU Delft Master's programmes send a lot of people away for three to six months — a thesis at another institution, an internship at a company elsewhere in the country, or a research placement abroad. You come back to Delft afterwards, which makes this different from simply moving out.

That leaves three options and only one of them is sensible. Keeping the room means paying full Delft rent for an empty room for a semester. Giving it up means re-entering the Delft housing market on your return, which is not something anyone does voluntarily. Subletting is possible in some buildings and prohibited in others, and either way your things have to go somewhere while a stranger lives there.

Storage handles the third case cleanly. We collect before you leave, hold everything for the semester, and deliver it back to whatever address you have in September or February — the same room if you kept it, or a new one if you did not.

The thing to get right is the collection date. Thesis and internship departures cluster, so book once your start date is confirmed rather than the week before you fly.

€15 a week for a room load — 10 to 15 boxes. €30 a week for a studio or one-bedroom flat. Two-week minimum, no deposit, no admin fee, nothing to pay when your things come back out.

Collection and redelivery are separate jobs at €49 an hour with a 1.5-hour minimum. Because we are on Delft's doorstep, that is normally just €73.50 each way plus transport.

The shapes that actually come up here:

Summer away. €180 for a room.

A thesis or internship semester. Five months, €300.


Two weeks between DUWO contracts. €30, the floor.

Send your address and dates on WhatsApp and you get the full figure — storage plus van — before you commit to anything.

Usually yes, but the answer depends heavily on which side of the canal you live on.

The historic centre is the awkward part. Streets around the Markt, the Oude Delft and the Nieuwe Delft are narrow, canal-side, partly restricted to vehicles during the day. Collections here take longer and need more planning — tell us the street when you book and we will work out the access and the timing with you rather than discovering it on the morning.

Everywhere else loads easily. Wippolder, Voorhof, Buitenhof, Tanthof, Poptahof and the areas around the campus are largely post-war, with wider streets, lifts in the taller blocks and parking near the entrance. A room load from one of these is usually done well inside the minimum.

We load and unload at street level, if elevator is missing. Bring what you can down beforehand, take bed frames and desks apart, and the driver can help with two or three of the heavier items.

TU Delft Master's students on thesis or internship placements. The single largest group, and the most predictable — departures cluster around the semester boundaries.

Students who simply have too much for the room. Seasonal and dormant belongings, stored while they carry on living there.

People between DUWO contracts. Campus and DUWO-managed housing runs on fixed dates tied to enrolment, and those dates do not always line up with the next place.

PhD candidates and postdocs between appointments. Fixed-term research contracts that end on a known date, often with a gap before the next position or a move abroad.

Graduating students who have not decided yet. You are leaving Delft, you might be leaving the country, and you do not want to make a permanent decision about your belongings in the same fortnight as your defence.

For the moving side of any of these, the student moving service covers it, and if you are heading to another city afterwards see the intercity moving service.

Yes, and regularly. The area around the campus on the south-east side of the city is one of the addresses we visit most, along with Wippolder next to it.

We collect across the whole city — Binnenstad, Wippolder, Voorhof, Buitenhof, Tanthof, Hof van Delft, Vrijenban and Poptahof — and from the surrounding towns including Rijswijk, Pijnacker, Nootdorp and Den Hoorn.

One practical note for managed student housing: some buildings have rules about vehicle access, loading zones or move-out time slots, and a few require you to book a window in advance. Check with your building before you book the van, and pass us whatever they tell you. It costs nothing to send and saves the collection that arrives to find it cannot park.

The storage price is identical across every address. Only the loading time varies.

Send a WhatsApp message to +31 6 48 85 21 48 with four things: your Delft address including the floor, roughly what you want stored, the collection date, and roughly when you expect to want it back. You get a price the same hour.

We come on the agreed date, go through the items with you, and send a photographed list before driving off — so there is a record of what went in, which matters when you are about to be somewhere else for five months. When you want everything back, message us with the delivery address.

A few days' notice is usually fine, since we are close. The exceptions are worth planning around: mid-July to early September, when Delft's student housing turns over almost entirely, and the last few days of any month, when contracts across the region end at once. If your date falls in either window, book two to three weeks out.