What ItemFits Can Check, and What It Can’t

Yes. ItemFits compares the sofa with the door’s clear opening, the space left when the door is open, not the frame size. It tries every way the sofa can go through: upright, on its side, on end, and tilted diagonally, and it gives the tilt angle when tilting is what makes it fit. It can also check the sofa with its legs removed and the door taken off its hinges. The answer says whether it fits, is tight, or does not fit, how much room is left, and which measurement decided it. If the doorway opens onto a narrow hallway, ItemFits checks the turn from the doorway into the hallway as well, because a sofa that clears the door can still get stuck there.

Yes. ItemFits checks straight stairs, L-shaped and U-shaped stairs with landings, winder stairs and spiral stairs. It checks the clear width between walls or railings, the headroom over the steps, and whether the item can make the turn at each landing. You pick the type of staircase and enter the measurements you have. When a size that matters is missing, such as headroom, ItemFits either asks for it or uses a standard size and tells you which one, so the answer never rests on a number you did not see.

Yes. ItemFits checks 90 degree corners between two hallways and the turn from a doorway into a narrow hallway. For a corner it shows how much room is left, or by how much the item is too long to make the turn. It also works the other way round: give it the item and it tells you how wide a hallway it needs to get around the corner.

Yes. ItemFits checks the elevator door and the inside of the cab separately, because a large cab does not help if the item cannot get through the door. It tries the item flat, on its side and stood on end inside the cab, and it looks for a way to angle the item in through the door. When the measurements do not settle the question, it says so and explains which size decides it, instead of guessing.

Yes. ItemFits has measured cargo areas for specific makes and models, with the seats up or folded, including the size of the rear opening. Pickup beds are checked as open beds, and the answer tells you when a load would stand higher than the bed sides and needs strapping. For a vehicle that is not in its catalog, ItemFits uses typical sizes for that type of vehicle and says so in the answer. It can also check several items in one vehicle.

Both. Besides openings, ItemFits checks whether one piece or a set of pieces fits on the floor of a room and how much space is left. An L-shaped sectional is checked by its L-shaped footprint, not as one big rectangle. The furniture fit calculator page also has a room spacing planner that adds walking space around a piece.

Yes. ItemFits checks items inside boxes, storage units, moving pods, moving trucks and cargo vans, using standard sizes for named pods, trucks and storage units when you do not have your own measurements, and it can pack several items together. It can also work backward and tell you what size box an item needs.

Yes, one step at a time. Describe the route in order, for example the front door, then the hallway, then the stairs, and ItemFits checks each step and tells you where the item gets stuck first. It checks the spaces and turns you describe. It does not map your home, so an obstacle you do not mention, such as a radiator or a low light fixture, is not part of the check.

No. A sectional that comes apart is checked piece by piece, and an L-shaped sectional that does not is checked as an L. Removable legs can be taken off in the check: give the leg height, or ItemFits checks a range of typical leg heights and tells you when the answer depends on it. Mattresses, futons and sofa beds may flex a little and are allowed to. A framed sofa is treated as rigid, so ItemFits never counts on squeezing it through a gap. Round, curved or irregular pieces are checked using their outer box, which is the cautious choice.

It works for any item you can give a width, depth and height for. That includes refrigerators, washers and dryers, TVs, mattresses, pianos, desks, bikes, lumber and boxed items still in their packaging. For many common items ItemFits already knows typical sizes, and it tells you when it used one, so you can replace it with your own measurement.

The calculation itself is exact geometry: for the same measurements it gives the same answer every time. The main source of error is the measurements, so measure the clear opening and the item at its widest points. When there is very little room to spare, ItemFits says the fit is tight rather than calling it a sure fit, and when a size it needs is missing it asks or tells you which standard size it used.