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As of 13 August 2026, AI can work out whether your furniture will fit in a new home.

This still needs a person who signs their name to it.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

30 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill neededchat-fluent

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsPlanner 5D is a purpose-built home-design tool with AI floor plans and furnished 3D rooms.

If this goes wrong, furniture may need to be returned, stored or moved again, and you may still discover the problem at the doorway or staircase.

What to actually do

  1. Hand it to a person

    The route this page recommends

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice

  3. Do it yourself

    The distant third

    A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Measure each piece of furniture at its widest, highest and deepest points, including feet, handles and fixed parts, and record whether it can be dismantled.
    2. Open the new home's floor plan or visit the property and measure every relevant room, doorway, hallway, turn, staircase, lift and entrance, including clear widths and heights.
    3. Record obstructions that a plan may omit, such as skirting boards, radiators, dado rails, low ceilings, door closers and window ledges.
    4. Paste the measurements, access route, furniture list and any photographs into the prompt, then ask the chatbot to separate definite fits, definite failures and items needing another measurement.
    5. Compare the chatbot's table with your original tape-measure readings and the property's plan, correcting any dimension it has copied or interpreted incorrectly.
    6. For borderline items, mark the furniture footprint and the tightest turning space with masking tape or cardboard, or ask the removal company to confirm the route before booking the move.

    Prompt

    Work out whether my furniture will fit in this new home. Use only the measurements and facts I provide, and do not guess dimensions or scale. First list any missing measurements that could change the answer. Then make a table for each item showing the furniture dimensions, the relevant room dimensions, the narrowest doorway or route measurement, required clearance, result, and confidence. Check entry doors, hallways, turns, stairs or lifts, skirting boards, radiators, alcoves and sloping ceilings where relevant. Separate definite fits, definite failures and items needing an on-site measurement. For every failure, identify the exact bottleneck. Do not treat a photograph or estate-agent floor plan as accurately scaled unless I confirm it. Finish with a short measuring checklist and tell me which conclusions I must verify with a tape measure before booking a move.

New home details:
[Paste room measurements, floor plan notes and access measurements here]

Furniture details:
[Paste each item's width, height, depth, and whether it can be dismantled here]

Photographs or plan notes:
[Paste descriptions or attach images here]

Known restrictions:
[Paste information about stairs, lifts, door opening direction, shared entrances or landlord restrictions here]

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot take a tape measure into the new home or inspect an entrance, stairwell or lift in person.
  • It cannot reliably infer scale, depth or hidden obstructions from an estate-agent photograph.
  • It cannot guarantee that furniture can turn through a doorway when the available clearance depends on angle, door movement or handling technique.
  • It does not carry responsibility for return charges, storage, damage or a failed delivery.
  • It cannot replace a removal company's site assessment for unusually large, heavy or fragile items.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: physical presence, verification cost and judgement under ambiguity.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification1
Liability1
Effort delta2
Total8 / 10

The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.

FAQ

Can AI tell me if my sofa will fit through the door?
Yes, if you provide the sofa's true dimensions and the clear dimensions of the door, hallway and any turns. Measure the route yourself because AI cannot reliably detect door frames, radiators, stairs or turning restrictions from a photograph.
Can I upload a floor plan and ask AI if my furniture will fit?
Yes. It can compare the furniture list with the labelled rooms and flag likely bottlenecks, but first confirm that the plan is scaled and add measurements for doors, halls, stairs and lifts.
How accurate is AI at measuring a room from a photo?
A photo can help identify layout and obstructions, but it is not a dependable source of exact measurements unless you provide a known scale and confirm the results. Use a tape measure for every dimension that affects the decision.
Can AI plan how to get my furniture into a new house?
It can turn your measurements into a route checklist and compare alternative access routes. It cannot test the physical manoeuvre or accept responsibility for damage, so ask the removal company to confirm difficult items.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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