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System types, water supply, sprinkler heads, spacing, hydraulic calcs, plan review, rough-in and final inspections. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 62 illustrated pages.
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Every page has one big drawing and a box with the numbers and code sections you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 8 parts and 58 topics.
You're reviewing a 13D plan for a two-story house. The attic, the garage and a small closet have no heads. Now you have to decide: correction or approved?
The code has the answer, but it's written in paragraphs: a general rule, then exceptions, then conditions on the exceptions. One pass later, the closet and the attic blur together.
In the book, that question is one page: the house drawn in section, every area covered by default, and the listed exceptions marked one by one, with P2904.1.1 right next to them so you can find it in the code.
Coverage area, spacing, distance to the wall, deflector to ceiling and obstructions get the same treatment: each one on its own page.
You look at the plan, you see what's missing, and you write the comment without flipping back through the code book.
The exam and the codes, the system as one path, where sprinklers go, heads and components, hydraulics step by step, plan review, inspection and testing, and review for exam day: 62 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
A submittal is on your desk, and the calc shows a K 4.9 head flowing 13 gpm at about 7 psi. You need to know if that number checks out.
You open the page on flow, pressure and K-factor and see Q = K × √P drawn as a garden hose: K is the nozzle, pressure pushes, flow comes out.
Same with the design sprinklers, elevation loss, friction loss, meter and backflow loss, and the P2904 prescriptive method: each one on its own page, in the order you use them.
Residential Fire Sprinkler Illustrated is 8 parts and 58 topics, all drawn, with a 13D vs 13R vs IRC number table, a where-to-find-it guide and two checklists at the end.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
What the RF exam covers, who covers what between 13D, 13R, 13 and the IRC, when R313 requires a system, and how to read a code section fast.
The system from the meter to the last head, stand-alone, multipurpose and looped systems, wet, dry and antifreeze, the riser up close and water supply sources.
Which spaces need sprinklers and which 13D lets you omit, coverage area, spacing, distance to the wall, deflector to ceiling, sloped ceilings, obstructions and heat sources.
Anatomy of a residential head, pendent, upright, sidewall and concealed, temperature ratings and colors, data sheets, pipe materials, valves, gauges, drains and alarms.
Flow, pressure and K-factor, design sprinklers, duration, elevation, friction, meter and backflow loss, and the P2904 method, so you can check a full 13D calc line by line, in the same order every time.
What a complete submittal contains, checking head layout and the hydraulic calc, water supply information, 13R differences and how to write a clear correction comment.
The rough-in inspection, hydrostatic and leak testing, hangers and support, freeze protection, the final inspection, painted or damaged heads and homeowner responsibilities.
The 13D vs 13R vs IRC number table, where to find it in the code, the most frequent mix-ups, plan review and inspection checklists, and open-book exam strategy.
At the end of the book: A 13D vs 13R vs IRC number table, a where-to-find-it code guide, and plan review and inspection checklists.
Practice the way the open-book exam asks: each question comes with the answer and the code section where you find it.
See the most frequent installation and plan-review mistakes drawn wrong and right, so you spot them on the plan and on site.
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You get the whole system as one drawn path, from the meter to the last head, so every code section has a place to land.
The number table and the where-to-find-it pages show you which code section holds each answer, so on exam day you know where to open your code books.
You keep the rough-in checks, the spacing rules and the calc steps at hand, printed for the desk or the truck.
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Yes. It isn't a beginner's book: it organizes what you already see on the job into one drawn path and points to the code section for each topic, so you can review fast and find answers in the exam.
From NFPA 13D and NFPA 13R, the International Residential Code (Sections R313 and P2904) and the ICC exam bulletin for the RF certification, following the code editions that bulletin lists. Section numbers can move between editions, so before test day check which editions your exam bulletin lists and which ones your jurisdiction has adopted.
No. It's independent study material. It isn't published, approved or endorsed by ICC or NFPA, and it doesn't reproduce code text: it explains each topic and tells you where to find it.
No. You still need the code books your exam bulletin allows and the training your job requires, and this book is not one of the references you take into the testing center. What it adds to the code books and a study guide: each topic drawn on one page, with the code section next to it, so on exam day you already know where to open the code. It doesn't give you a certificate or continuing education credit: the RF certification comes only from passing the ICC exam.
No. They're written for this book in the style of an open-book exam, each with the answer and the code section where you find it. They aren't official questions from any exam.
The book and the 2 bonus books come as PDFs by email, to the address you enter at checkout.
No. It's a one-time payment. No subscription.
Yes. It's a PDF, so you can print it all or just the pages you want to take to the desk or the job site.
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No more rereading code sections that don't stick.
Head spacing, wall distance and the riser: you see them drawn.
You walk into the exam knowing where every answer lives.
Drawings make studying faster.
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