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 ladder. No CAD. No classes. No desk.
START YOUR 2 WEEKS FREEIf 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 โ 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 the branch lines run. Legs snap to real directions. Don't know a length? Mark it โ?โ and it gets solved.
Tell it the hazard and the spacing you're working to. It drops the heads on that spacing and flags the one that won't make coverage.
Armovers, drops, sprigs, and the head that has to move for a light fixture 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 โ escutcheons, wrenches, sealant โ on its own list.
Not a GPS voice. Nothing says “in five hundred feet, make a U-turn” and nothing reads you a paragraph you didn’t ask for. You say what you need, it says “got it” and does it. That’s the whole personality.
Talk the parts that are easier to say. Tap the parts that are easier to tap. It’s an option, not a mode you get stuck in.
Tape in one hand, phone in your pocket. Say the number and it lands on the leg you’re pointing at โ you never climb down to type it, and you never write it on your hand.
Nobody types with gloves on and nobody wants grinder dust on the glass. Talk instead of peeling everything off every time you get a dimension.
Sun blowing out the phone, a dark mechanical room, or eyes that just aren’t what they were at twenty-five. Ask, and it tells you โ out loud, short.
Some of the best hands in this trade don’t type fast, don’t like to, and have spent thirty years getting handed a keyboard by somebody half their age. Talk to it instead. It never makes a thing of it.
You: “Branch line runs forty foot, heads ten on center”
It: “Got it.”
You: “What’s that cut?”
It: “Ten foot on center.”
And when it has to stop you:
It: “That head won't make coverage.”
Short. Plain. In the language the job already uses.
The number you lose is the one you read at the top of a ladder and wrote down two minutes later. Say it the second you read it and it’s in the sketch, on the right leg, before you’ve moved.
And the guy who’s been running work for thirty years shouldn’t have to learn to thumb-type to use the tool that carries his own knowledge. He talks. It listens. That was the point of the whole thing.
Drag your finger. Pull the trigger. That's the training.
Sprink-Shot is field-tested by Bel Air Mechanical crews on live commercial work. These are our jobs โ nothing staged.
You're standing under the actual ceiling looking at the actual obstructions โ not a drawing from somebody's office.
Every length, every fitting, every head and escutcheon โ 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.
Tenant fit-out? Owner asking "how much to add three heads"? You've got the material list before you're off the lift.
Every shop has one. The guy who walks a floor and just knows โ where the heads want to land, which beam pocket is going to be an obstruction problem, that the branch line has to shift a foot now or the whole bay gets redone later.
He learned it over forty years, mostly from someone else who never wrote it down either. Now he's retiring โ and unless somebody catches it, all of it leaves with him.
Meanwhile the new guy gets a tape, a print, and "figure it out." He's not lazy. Nobody ever taught him. That gap is what costs you rework, a failed walk, a Saturday, and the good young hands who quit because they felt stupid.
Real fitting libraries and published takeouts โ grooved, threaded, CPVC. Head types, temperature ratings, and the spacing rules you're actually held to. If a dimension isn't published, it says VERIFY instead of pretending.
It flags the head that won't make coverage and the piece that can't be made up โ before the inspector counts it and before you cut. The save happens at the saw, not at the walk.
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 โ that's how it actually sticks.
The layout knowledge of a forty-year sprinkler foreman, in every pocket on the crew, on every job, forever. That's the whole point.
None of this was ever a secret. It's just what needs to be taught โ and nobody ever wrote it down. So we did, and we're giving it away. We're not holding the trade hostage behind a paywall. The app is the product. The knowledge belongs to the trade โ hand it to your apprentice on day one, print the whole thing and hang it in the trailer.
Two tracks. Every box reads itself out loud if you'd rather listen than read.
Learn the app in an afternoon.
The trade behind the buttons. Hand this to every apprentice on day one.
Takeout math: the drawing gives you center-to-center. The fitting's takeout is how much of that distance the fitting itself covers. CUT = C2C โ the takeout at each end. Grooved and threaded don't take out the same amount, and a threaded joint also needs thread engagement โ the nipple between two fittings has to make up on both ends, or it physically can't be built. That's what "too short โ move the tee" means, and it's why the guy who does the math never cuts twice.
Then the part nobody writes down: when an obstruction makes you move a head, you didn't just move a head. You changed the spacing on that branch, and spacing is what coverage is figured from. Move it on the sketch first, check the number, then move it in the ceiling.
That's one paragraph out of twenty modules. All of it free.
No login. No email. Print it and hang it in the trailer.
It's funny because it's true, and it's true because we've all lived it. Every laugh has a lesson hiding in it โ that's how the trade trains the new guy, and it's how we built the app.
Don't like reading? Neither do we. Hit ๐ LISTEN on any box and it reads that one out loud.
Nobody ever quit the trade over a hard day โ they quit over being lost and too proud to say so. Humor is how crews teach without anyone admitting they're learning. That's the product too. Sprink-Shot tells you the truth about the math and never makes you feel stupid for asking.
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 โ no tiers, no corporate discount.
START MY 2 WEEKS FREE2 weeks free, then $59/mo per seat. Cancel anytime.
Step-by-step how-to videos plus Foreman School โ coverage and spacing, takeout math, head types, hangers and bracing, the inspection walk. Unlocked the minute you sign up.
Give it the hazard and the spacing you're working to. It sets the heads to that spacing instead of to what fit on the drawing.
The measurement the inspector checks first is the one that's easiest to eyeball wrong. It's on the sheet, in writing.
Duct, light, beam pocket โ 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.
Sprink-Shot is a layout and takeoff aid. Hydraulic calculations, system design, and final code compliance stay with the licensed designer and the AHJ โ the app does the field math and shows its work.
On sprinkler work it's rarely the pipe. It's the box of escutcheons, the head you're two short of, the hanger hardware, and the spare heads and wrench that have to be in the cabinet before anybody signs anything. The Bucket tracks what you've already got against what the job actually needs.
Type, temperature rating, and finish โ counted per head, with the escutcheon that goes with it. Not "grab a box."
Grooved couplings, tees, reducers and nipples counted off the layout you drew, with the takeouts already figured.
Hanger hardware on your spacing, bracing at the changes of direction, plus sealant, tape, and the spare-head cabinet.
Tell it what you already have and it only orders the difference. Quit paying twice for a box of escutcheons.
One trip. The small parts are the trip you didn't plan for.
Sprink-Shot is field-proven by Bel Air Mechanical crews on real commercial work. Drop your email and your two weeks start the day we open the doors.