What a lot of people don't realise is that having a garage – and using it for its intended purpose of car storage – can lead to a heavy reduction on your car insurance.
Insurance companies have long looked favourably on cars that are kept over night inside a garage, rather than left in on-street parking spaces. It can sometimes lead to saving hundreds of pounds off your premium.
Stephen Richards, whose company, Storage Maker, designs tailored garage storage systems, said keeping your garage tidy is simple but worthwhile.
“By using an effective garage storage solution, you can take back control of the space you have and use a garage for what it was intended, namely to keep the car in,” he said.
"By getting your stored items off the garage floor and onto shelves, wall-mounted storage and generally tidied up, you can use the garage for two purposes – the one it was designed for and as an additional home storage area,” adds Stephen.


He warned that people who say they keep their cars in garages but really do not due to crowding and clutter, are running the risk of finding their insurance is invalid and not able to make an insurance claim when they need to.