Sketch the mains and branch lines the way you always have. Get the head count, the spacing, the drops and the cut list before you're back off the lift. No CAD. No classes. No desk.
Start your 2 week free trialREAL JOB. REAL CREW. REAL MATH.If you can sketch a branch line on the back of a submittal, you can run this app. Your finger is the pencil.
First layout in ten minutes. It draws the way the trade already reads it.
It lives on the phone in your pocket and works standing under the grid — where the heads actually go.
Every cut and every spacing prints its math. Check every number before you thread.
Drag your finger the way the main and branch lines run. Legs snap to real directions. Mark an unknown length "?" and it gets solved.
Tell it the hazard and the spacing you are working to. It drops the heads on that spacing and flags the one that will not make coverage.
Armovers, drops, sprigs, and the head that has to move for a light or a duct. Mark the obstruction and it dodges, counting the added fittings.
Cut list with the takeouts shown, the fitting and head schedule, hangers on spacing, and the small stuff — escutcheons, wrenches, sealant.
Field-tested by our crews on live commercial work — nothing staged.
Gloves on, hands filthy? Talk. Up a lift, tape in one hand? Talk. Can't see the screen? Talk. Put your instructions in out loud — it comes back with "got it" so you know it heard you, and that's all it ever says. It uses your device's own voice, so it already sounds like the phone in your pocket.
You: "Branch line runs forty foot, heads ten on center"
It: "Got it."
You: "Move that head a foot off the wall."
It: "Got it."
The number you lose is the one you read up a ladder and wrote down two minutes later. Say it the second you read it and it's in the sketch. He talks. It listens.
Give it the hazard and spacing you are working to. It sets heads to that spacing instead of to what fit on the drawing.
The measurement the inspector checks first is the easiest to eyeball wrong. It is on the sheet, in writing.
Duct, light, beam pocket — mark it and the head moves once, with the new spacing shown, not three times in the ceiling.
Every drop is pipe, fittings, and an escutcheon. Counted per head so the order matches the ceiling.
You're standing under the actual ceiling looking at the actual obstructions — not a drawing from somebody's office.
Every length, every fitting, every head and escutcheon — counted off the real conditions, with the math shown.
One trip to the counter with the full list. The two escutcheons nobody counted? Already on it.
Owner asking "how much to add three heads"? You have the material list before you are off the lift.
Every shop has one — the guy who walks a floor and just knows where the heads want to land, which beam pocket is going to be a problem. He learned it over forty years from someone who never wrote it down. Now he is retiring. The new guy gets a tape and "figure it out." That gap is rework and a failed walk.
Real fitting libraries and published takeouts — grooved, threaded, CPVC. Head types, temperature ratings, and the spacing rules. If a number is not published, it says VERIFY.
It flags the head that will not make coverage and the piece that cannot be made up — before the inspector counts it and before you cut.
Center-to-center minus the takeouts = CUT, printed next to the pipe, with the spacing on the sheet. The apprentice learns the math while he uses it.
The layout knowledge of a forty-year sprinkler foreman, in every pocket on the crew, on every job, forever. That is the whole point.
Two tracks, ten modules each. Run the Program teaches the app; Foreman School teaches the trade. Hand it to your apprentice on day one.
1 · Your first five minutes · 2 · The Job box — system, material, size · 3 · Benchmarks & reference walls · 4 · Drawing the main & branch lines · 5 · Dropping heads + spacing · 6 · Risers and standpipe · 7 · Obstruction dodges · 8 · Reading the cut list + fitting schedule · 9 · Sheets & match points · 10 · Printing the stack
1 · Coverage & spacing basics · 2 · Reading a sprinkler plan · 3 · Takeout math for grooved & threaded · 4 · Head types and where each belongs · 5 · Hangers & seismic bracing · 6 · Drops, armovers, escutcheons · 7 · Hydraulic sanity checks · 8 · The material order that does not bounce · 9 · The inspection walk-through · 10 · Training the next guy
No login. No email. Print it, save it, share it with your crew.
The full layout and takeoff engine, cut lists, head and fitting schedules, and the complete training library. Same price for a one-man shop or a hundred hands — no tiers, no corporate discount.
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Tell the Bucket what you have and the layout builds around it. The material you already own is the cheapest on the job.
Test it on your own work — free. Two weeks, no card games.
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