Heads, mains and branch lines, from the layout to the final

Everyday problems on a fire protection job

• Head counts get redone by hand every time the ceiling plan changes.
• Relocated heads for the new soffit go in, and nobody writes up the change.
• Pipe and fittings for the riser post to the shop, not the job.
• Rough-in and trim get billed off a guess instead of the schedule of values.

(Illustrative trade situations, not customer data or quotes.)

How it works

1. Take it off the plans: Count pendants, uprights and sidewalls on the ceiling plan, and measure mains and branch lines right on the sheet.
2. Buy it and post it: Put heads, pipe and the riser assembly on a PO, and post the bills to the job.
3. Change it, bill it, close it: Write up relocations and added heads as change orders, bill rough-in and trim as their own lines, and check WIP.

Shop talk, Pinnacle talk

What you call it on a fire protection job, and where it lives in Pinnacle.

What's in Pinnacle

• Takeoff on the drawing. Open the plan set, measure lengths and areas, and count items right on the sheet. Every measurement becomes a quantity line in the estimate, so each number in your fire protection / sprinklers bid traces back to the drawing it came from. Trade tools are built to let you count heads and measure mains on the plan so sprinkler scope feeds the estimate Early access.
• Bid board to bid day. Every project you're chasing sits on one bid board, with its estimate attached. On bid day the final numbers are all in one place, and the bid you win carries straight into a live job.
• Assemblies and a parts library. Build an assembly once from your own parts and cost codes, then drop it into any estimate. Your shop's way of pricing work stays consistent from bid to bid.
• Live material prices. Material lines in the estimate carry live prices. Built to let you plug in your own price sources (supplier price files in CSV, supply houses or pricing services) from the admin area Early access.
• Cost control tied to the job. Purchase orders for pipe, bills, AP and AR post to the job and its cost codes. Job cost shows what's committed and what's spent while the work is still going.
• Change orders and extras. Log added scope on the job and the sold number moves with it, so extras get billed instead of forgotten.
• WIP and job P&L. See where each job stands at month end without rebuilding it in a spreadsheet.
• The books. Journals, trial balance, P&L and aging sit in the same system as the jobs that feed them.
• Hours and payroll. Post crew hours (straight, overtime, double time) and run payroll from them. Built today for a single shop; payroll for any shop is designed into the platform Early access.
• AIA G702/G703-style pay apps. Build the pay app from the job you already set up, with the schedule of values right there.
• Insights. Making-and-spending charts, plus billed, leftover and job mix, pulled from your job files.
• Teams and job chat. Channels, meetings and files for the office and crews, and job chat that keeps the files and photos with the conversation.
• Project manager desk. One place for a PM to run their jobs.
• Secure sign-in. Multi-factor sign-in protects your shop's data.

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