Moving Home by the Numbers: Inventory Volume, Boxes, Van Size, Quotes, Timeline & Overlap Costs

What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

• Turn the Fenwicks' furniture list into cubic metres with a volume table, add the rooms up and get the total volume including boxes.
• Convert shelf and cupboard metres into whole boxes by size, price them from a box table and work out how many rolls of tape to buy.
• Compare four fictional hire vans: trips needed for 20.4 m³, hire days, kilometres driven and the total cost, then pick the cheapest class.
• Build the full cost of three fictional ways to move from the same cost drivers, compare the cost per m³ and let XLOOKUP name the cheapest option.
• Count how many weekday evenings the Fenwicks need for 68 boxes, find the start date counting back from moving day with WORKDAY and build a countdown of boxes still to pack.
• Find when the old lease really ends with EDATE, turn rent and utilities into a daily cost and compare the overlap cost of four key dates for the new house.
• Check five pieces of furniture against the new door width with MIN and IF, and use Pythagoras with SQRT to see which ones can be stood up under the bedroom ceiling.
• Build the Fenwicks' one-screen dashboard: days to go, overdue and upcoming open tasks with COUNTIFS on dates, the budget result and a budget vs actual chart.