Inventory and room codes
One row per piece of furniture or large item, with its decision, cubic feet, value and special handling, and the room codes for the new home that the boxes will carry.
Essential on a first pass. The items sheet is three tools in one (our method): the list of decisions, the cubic-foot total that sizes a truck or checks an estimate, and the record you point to in a claim. The room codes sheet is essential if you pack yourself: the codes go on every box. Your inventory walks through both.
Room codes for the new home
One row per room in the new home. The code goes on every box and on a sign on that room's door at the new home. Colors are optional; a code alone works.
Items
One row per piece of furniture or large item. A blank cubic feet or value cell means not estimated yet, and any total that counts it says so; 0 means none. Number the rows so a claim can point to them.
How to use this sheet
- One row per piece of furniture or large item. Boxes go on the box register, not here. Small things count only when they need a decision of their own (a bicycle, a lamp, a grill).
- Decide every row. “Not decided” is a real answer, but it is the one to clear first: undecided items get packed and moved by default.
- Cubic feet from a table, value from you. The cubic-foot column takes the figure from California's tariff table or your own measurement. The value column is your own estimate of what it would cost to replace; leave it blank when you have not estimated, and the total says it is incomplete.
- Codes are for the new home. Name each room as it will be at the new home, give it a short code, and put the code on that room's door on moving day.
The example rows are from Noor Haddad's list (fictional): a double bed at 60 cubic feet, a 3-cushion sofa at 50 and a bicycle at 10, each from California's Item 410 table. The sofa is marked “heavy, two people” and photographed; the bed is marked “take apart”. The two room codes show the new home's living room and kitchen with optional colors.
The cubic-foot figures and the 7-pound weight convention are estimating conventions, not measurements of your goods; a mover's survey or a scale settles weight. The value column is your own estimate: it is not an appraisal and does not set what a mover, an insurer or a buyer will pay. Whether an item can go on the truck is the mover's, rental company's or regulator's list, not this sheet.