LibreEvery grouted cell, every tie, every foot of through-wall flashing — before the next course hides it.
Reinforcement, ties, and flashing vanish course by course as the wall goes up. LibreCam stamps GPS, weather, and time on every photo and keeps shooting behind the scaffold with no signal.
A wall, documented course by course
Each lift buries what the last one held. Shoot it before it's behind the brick.
Footing & first course
- Footing condition and elevation before the first block
- Vertical rebar and dowels set out of the footing
- Layout lines and the first course dry-fit
- Base flashing and weeps at the bottom of the cavity
Going up
- Reinforced cells with rebar before the grout pour
- Wall ties and joint reinforcement at the right spacing
- Lintels, bond beams, and bearing over openings
- Through-wall flashing, end dams, and weeps at each line
- Mortar joints tooled, with conditions logged on cold days
Finish & inspection
- Wall cleaned and final pointing in good light
- Cap, coping, and counter-flashing details
- Wide elevations to place every detail on the wall
- Inspection set the inspector can walk on a link
The photos that decide whether you get paid
A masonry wall buries its own evidence as it rises. Every grouted cell with rebar in it, every wall tie, every foot of through-wall flashing is visible for one lift and then it's behind the next course for good. The inspector signs off on the steel and the grout before the cells close, and if that sign-off isn't backed by a photo, you don't get to re-open the wall to make the case. The bigger money moment comes later — the leak. When water shows up inside a year on, the fight is always about the flashing, and the only way to prove yours went in right is a dated photo from the day that course was open. The same record answers the cold-weather question: did you tool and protect those joints in time? LibreCam keeps it automatic: GPS, weather, and time on every shot, organized by job, ready to hand the inspector or the GC as a single link built from a course-by-course checklist.
Built for how masonry crews actually work
Grouted cells on the record
Rebar in the cell before the grout pour, shot at the lift it goes in. The photo is the only proof left once the wall closes over it.
Flashing and weeps documented
Through-wall flashing, end dams, and weeps at each line. When a leak shows up later, your dated photo settles whose detail it is.
Cold-weather conditions, logged
Temperature stamped automatically. Prove you tooled and protected within the cold-weather window when it's questioned.
Behind the scaffold? Keep shooting.
Reception dies behind a block wall and a wrapped scaffold. Photos and captions queue on your phone and sync when you're back in range.
Course-by-course checklist
Steel, grout, ties, flashing, weeps, bond beams — work the list so the inspection isn't called with a buried cell unphotographed.
One link for the inspector
No app on their end. They open a browser gallery — wide elevations for context, close-ups for every reinforced cell.
Frequently Asked Questions
Anything the wall is about to bury: rebar in the cells before grouting, wall ties, through-wall flashing with its end dams and weeps, and bond beams over openings. Wide to place it, close to prove it. Once the course goes on, it's gone.
Shoot the rebar in the cell before the grout pour, at the lift it goes in, with the spacing visible. That's what the special inspector signs off on, and the photo is the only way to make the case after the cells are filled.
Leak fights are always about the flashing and weeps. A dated photo from the day that course was open — flashing lapped, end dams formed, weeps clear — is the only thing that shows your detail went in right.
Yes. Temperature is stamped on every photo automatically, so you can show you tooled and protected the joints in time if it's ever questioned.
Yes. Photos, voice captions, and checklists all work with zero signal and queue on your phone. Everything syncs when you're back in range.
Nothing. LibreCam is free for the whole crew — the free plan is the product, not a trial.