LibreEvery strap, every hanger, every sheet of nailed sheathing — before it disappears.
Insulation and rock hide the whole structural story by drywall day. LibreCam stamps GPS, weather, and time on every photo and keeps shooting on raw lots with no signal.
A frame, documented before it's buried
The structural shots have a window — from rough framing to the day the rock goes up.
Layout & first floor
- Foundation or slab condition before any plate goes down
- Sill seal, anchor bolts, and mudsill attachment
- Layout lines and bearing-wall locations
- Engineered lumber stamped and placed per the plan
- Material deliveries with grades and tags in frame
Walls, floors & roof
- Walls raised, braced, and plumbed
- Headers, beams, and point loads carried down to bearing
- Hold-downs, straps, and hangers — the connectors nailed off
- Joists, trusses, and rafters with spacing and bearing
- Blocking, fire-blocking, and shear panel nailing
Sheathing & rough inspection
- Wall and roof sheathing with nailing pattern and edge spacing
- Window and door rough openings sized and squared
- Wide elevations to place every detail on the building
- Inspection set the framing inspector can walk on a link
The photos that decide whether you get paid
Framing is a structural trade with a short memory. By the time insulation and drywall are in, nobody can see a single connector you nailed off. The frame inspection is your one window — the inspector wants the hold-downs, the blocking, the nailing pattern, all visible before anything covers them. If a correction comes back after the rock is up, you're tearing out finished walls to prove what was already right. The same record carries you on the callback nobody saw coming: a cracked corner, a bouncy floor, a question about whether the frame got built the way it was drawn. A dated photo of the connector nailed off and the beam bearing where the plan called for it ends that conversation. LibreCam keeps it automatic: GPS, weather, and time on every shot, organized by job, ready to hand the next trade or the inspector as a single link built from a framing checklist.
Built for how framing crews actually work
Pre-cover proof that outlasts the rock
Connectors, straps, blocking, and nailing — shot before insulation and drywall bury them. The photo is the only record left after the wall closes.
Structural detail, close up
Hold-downs, hangers, and engineered lumber. Wide to place it on the building, close to prove it went in right.
No power, no Wi-Fi, no problem.
Raw lots rarely have signal. Photos and captions queue on your phone and sync when you leave the site.
Voice captions from the staging
Hold the button and say it — 'HDU hold-down, southeast corner, anchor torqued.' The note rides with the photo.
Checklist that matches the inspection
Connectors, shear, blocking, fire-blocking, rough openings — work the list so nobody calls the frame inspection with a shot missing.
One link for the inspector or the next trade
No app on their end. They open a browser gallery — wide elevations for context, close-ups for every connector.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything structural that's about to be hidden: hold-downs, straps, hangers, blocking, shear-wall nailing, and the beams carrying load. Wide shots to place each one, close-ups to prove the install. After the rock is up, none of it is visible.
The inspection is your one window to show the connectors and nailing before they're covered. Work a framing checklist as you go and hand the inspector a complete set on a link, so a correction doesn't send you tearing out finished walls.
Yes. Everything saves to your phone first and syncs automatically when you're back in signal. Raw lots are exactly the case it's built for.
A dated photo of the connector nailed off and the beam bearing where the plan called for it answers the question the moment it's asked — instead of opening a finished wall to find out who's right.
Yes. Shoot the pattern and edge spacing before the sheathing gets covered, with a detail close enough to count. It's the proof an inspector or engineer asks for and the wall can't show later.
Nothing. LibreCam is free for the whole crew — the free plan is the product, not a trial.