Storing with Iron Mountain or Restore and paying more each year for less? Stor-a-File does storage, scanning and destruction in-house, in the UK, since 1977 — with transparent pricing and no charge to get your records back.
If you store records with Iron Mountain, Restore or another national operator and you're tired of rising prices, slow retrievals and charges to get your own records back, there's a UK-owned alternative that does the lot in-house. We're Stor-a-File — running our own facilities since 1977.
The pattern is consistent: prices that climb each year with little transparency, retrievals that are slow or expensive, per-box charges simply to release your records, and work quietly subcontracted to third parties. None of that is inevitable.
We're UK-owned and everything is done in-house — collection, storage, scanning and destruction, by our own DBS-checked staff in our own branded vehicles and our own accredited sites, never offshored or subcontracted. Pricing is transparent, and we don't levy the per-box "retrieval to leave" charges the big providers are known for. You get a single, accountable chain of custody and, usually, a more personal service.
We manage the whole move: collect from your current provider, re-index every box into O'Neil records-management software against your references, and reconcile against your inventory so nothing is missing. It's scheduled around you, so there's no gap in access — urgent files can be pulled before or during the transfer. The step-by-step is in our guide to switching storage provider.
We hold ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, scan to BS 10008, destroy to BS EN 15713, are an ESPO framework supplier and manage over 10 million files across six UK sites. See document storage and records management for how your archive runs with us.
Iron Mountain and Restore are named here only for comparison; they are not associated with Stor-a-File. We compare on facts and let the service and pricing speak.
Tell us roughly how many boxes you hold and who with, and we'll send a clear, no-obligation comparison — collection and transfer included.
We'll be in touch, usually the same working day. Anything urgent? Call free on 0800 281857.
Usually three reasons: rising prices with little transparency, slow or costly retrievals and per-box exit charges, and records handled by subcontractors rather than the provider's own staff. If you're paying more each year for less control, moving is simpler than it looks.
We're UK-owned and have run our own facilities since 1977. Everything — collection, storage, scanning, destruction — is done in-house by our own DBS-checked staff and vehicles, never subcontracted or offshored, and we don't levy the per-box 'retrieval to leave' charges the large providers are known for.
No. We manage the whole transfer — collect from your current provider, re-index every box into our system and reconcile against your inventory — scheduled around your needs so you can always get a file back. See our switching guide.
Yes — ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001, BS 10008 for scanning and BS EN 15713 for destruction, and we're an ESPO framework supplier managing over 10 million files.
Storage, records management, scanning and scan-on-demand, data capture and secure destruction all run from the same accredited UK sites — usually with more personal service and clearer pricing.