Apartment Moving Measurement Checklist
A printable apartment measurement sheet for recording doorways, hallways, elevators and furniture in inches, so your mover or supplier can confirm fit before moving day.
Contents
Use one measurement sheet for the whole delivery path. Start where furniture enters the building and work through to the spot where each piece will sit. Record every door, hallway, stairwell and elevator in inches, list the dimensions of the large items you are moving, and give the completed sheet to your mover or furniture supplier so they can confirm what will fit. A sheet like this records the actual openings in your building. Standard door sizes do not tell you what will fit, and neither do assumptions about a previous apartment.
What the sheet should cover
Published move-in measuring checklists commonly cover three points: the unit door, the room door, and the final footprint where an item will stand. At the unit entry, they recommend measuring the usable width and height with the door positioned as it will be during delivery. A complete sheet also includes the other spaces an item must pass through before it reaches the unit.
- Building entrance door
- Lobby and any interior doors before the elevator or stairs
- Stairwell width, landings and turns, if stairs are used
- Elevator door opening and elevator interior, if an elevator is used
- Corridor leading to your unit
- Unit entry door, measured with the door positioned for delivery
- Interior hallway inside the unit
- Door of the destination room
- Final footprint where the item will sit
How to record each opening
The following are practical suggestions for keeping the sheet consistent. They are not verified requirements from any mover or building.
- Record usable space, not the nominal frame size. Measure between the narrowest points, such as door stops, hinges, or the open door itself.
- Take more than one reading across each opening and write down the smallest.
- Use inches throughout and keep fractions. Do not round up.
- In the notes column, list anything that narrows the path, such as handrails, radiators, light fixtures, tight turns or low ceilings at a landing.
- Record the date and the name of the person who measured. Then the mover knows how current the numbers are.
- Photograph tight spots and label each photo with its row number on the sheet.
Printable apartment measurement sheet template
This guide does not include a downloadable PDF. To make one, copy the template below into a document or spreadsheet, adjust the rows to match your building, and print it or save it as a PDF. Leave a row blank or mark it N/A if it does not apply, such as an elevator in a walk-up.
APARTMENT MOVE MEASUREMENT SHEET
Unit: ____________ Measured by: ____________ Date: __________
All measurements in inches (keep fractions)
SECTION A - ACCESS PATH (street to final room, in order)
Done # Location / opening Usable W Usable H Depth/Length Obstructions / notes
[ ] 1 Building entrance door ______ ______ ------ ____________________
[ ] 2 Lobby / interior doors ______ ______ ------ ____________________
[ ] 3 Stairwell (width, landings) ______ ______ ______ ____________________
[ ] 4 Elevator door opening ______ ______ ------ ____________________
[ ] 5 Elevator interior ______ ______ ______ ____________________
[ ] 6 Corridor to unit ______ ______ ------ ____________________
[ ] 7 Unit entry door (as positioned for delivery)
______ ______ ------ ____________________
[ ] 8 Hallway inside unit ______ ______ ------ ____________________
[ ] 9 Destination room door ______ ______ ------ ____________________
[ ] 10 Final footprint ______ ------ ______ ____________________
SECTION B - ITEMS TO MOVE
Done Item W D H Disassembles? (Y/N) Fit confirmed by / date
[ ] ________________ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____________________
[ ] ________________ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____________________
[ ] ________________ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____________________
SECTION C - CONFIRMATIONS
[ ] Sheet and photos sent to mover or supplier Date: __________
[ ] Fit confirmed for every item in Section B
[ ] Building delivery requirements checked with management
[ ] Final footprint matches Section A, row 10Before moving day
Send the finished sheet and photos to the mover or furniture supplier. Ask them to confirm fit for each listed item. They can judge whether a piece needs to be tilted, disassembled or delivered another way. Your sheet gives them accurate numbers for that decision. Delivery rules such as elevator use, permitted hours or floor protection differ from building to building, so check them with your property management. This guide does not describe any specific building's requirements.
Gaps in this checklist
The evidence behind this guide does not establish any minimum clearance, safety margin or calculation that predicts whether a given item will fit through a given opening. For that reason, the sheet gives no fit thresholds, and you should not treat any number on it as a pass or fail result. Only your mover or supplier can confirm fit, using your measurements and their knowledge of the item.
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