Practical guide / Home Contents & Warranty Workbook 1.0
Find the item, the evidence and the next warranty action.
A room-by-room record of what you own, with purchase costs, separate replacement estimates, receipt references, confirmed warranty dates, repairs and claim follow-ups.
Your first useful result: Start with one connected record. Follow the first task
Record one item
In Assets, enter a unique ID, room, description, purchase date and cost. Add your own replacement estimate separately.
Linked records and input checks use the same stable IDs; review the labelled calculated cells.
Review: Keep the source record and the review together.
Find the evidence
Record the location of the receipt and photo. Enter only a provider-confirmed warranty end date.
Linked records and input checks use the same stable IDs; review the labelled calculated cells.
Review: Keep the source record and the review together.
Follow the outcome
Link repair and claim records to the same Asset ID. Room review keeps paid cost, estimates and repair spend separate.
Linked records and input checks use the same stable IDs; review the labelled calculated cells.
Review: Keep the source record and the review together.
Check the assumptions.
- Save a working copy first. Manual entry; no automatic sync or external connections.
- Fixed supplied capacities: extend formulas, tables and validations before adding more rows.
- Use one currency; currency labels do not convert money. No accounting or professional advice.
- Resolve input warnings before using summaries. Blank means unknown; enter 0 for a known zero.
- Replacement estimates are entered manually and are not insurance valuations. Coverage and warranty decisions belong to the provider.
- Store document references, not private document contents or account passwords. Claims do not infer entitlement.
Keep a copy you can return to.
Keep the supplied clean and example files unchanged. Save your own working file with a useful name, such as home-contents-2027-home.xlsx, and keep a dated backup before a large edit. A purchased ZIP is the blank source, not a backup of your entries.
If an input or formula is replaced
Undo the edit while it is still available, or return to a known good backup. If you need a fresh clean file, transfer only your records into its marked input cells and follow the setup guide again. Do not paste whole sheets over the supplied formulas, validations or reference lists. Check IDs, units, dates and linked results against the example before relying on the copy.
When the supplied rows are full
250 assets · 400 repairs · 100 claims. Calculation ranges and validations have fixed capacities. A new row below a table does not prove that every linked result includes it.
For a separate period, project or volume, preserve the old workbook and start a named clean copy. If records must carry forward, record exactly which inputs you transfer, preserve their references and compare the opening and closing figures. Avoid copying historical activity as both an opening amount and a new movement. There is no automatic migration between files.
Inspect the workbook before you choose.
View its real sheets and a fictional calculation example.
Explore Home Contents & Warranty WorkbookWritten for version 1.0. Examples describe the supplied workflow; they are not customer results.