Your work is the first thing that gets inspected and the first thing covered up.
Shear nailing, hold-downs and structural observation are all inspected once, on a schedule you do not set.
What goes wrong on framing jobs
A correction notice on a shear wall holds the entire job. Every trade behind you is waiting on a sign-off that depends on one detail being right.
How the paperwork actually moves
Framing draws are large, early and usually progress-based. Lumber packages, truss deliveries, engineering observation reports and inspection corrections all sit inside the first payment cycle, which is where most of the money moves.
Nothing goes out without your say-so. Money and commitments stop at you by default. We write it up, you make the call. That is how the system is wired, not a habit we ask you to build.
The documents that only exist on framing jobs
Framing is inspected once and then covered, so the record has to exist while the walls are open: the shear nailing schedule, hold-down and anchor-bolt placement, and the special inspection reports if the job has one.
Truss layouts arrive with revisions. The sealed layout that was actually built and the delivery tag on each shipment are the two documents an inspector or a general contractor asks for when something does not line up — and the only ones that show a change was made on purpose.
- Sealed truss layouts and delivery tags matched to the address.
- Shear nailing and hold-down inspection records filed while the walls are open.
- Structural RFIs and framing change orders logged against the sheet they affect.
Where the licence sits. Work of this kind in California is licensed under the CSLB C-5 – Framing and Rough Carpentry Contractor. Those are the classifications these documents come from.
What we take off your desk
- Draws built and submitted against the schedule of values, with the waivers attached, inside two days.
- Change orders priced and approved before the work proceeds, not argued about afterwards.
- Subcontractor compliance — certificates, licences and waivers tracked, with gaps chased before money moves.
- California deadlines tracked, including preliminary notice and 20-day notices, so lien rights are not lost by a date nobody watched.
- Your customer kept informed, so the person paying the draw knows what they are paying for.
- A named office manager on your account, with a trained office crew behind them and our software doing the reading.
Questions framing contractors ask
Do you coordinate structural observation reports?
Yes, scheduled with the engineer and filed against the draw so the observation record is complete when the payment is submitted.
What happens when there is a correction notice?
It is logged, tracked to re-inspection and closed out. A correction sitting open is the fastest way to hold the money behind it.
Do you handle lumber and truss package tracking?
Deliveries are matched against the schedule of values so the draw reflects what actually landed, not what was ordered.
Get the desk off your back
Tell us what you are running and what it is costing you to keep up. We will tell you plainly whether we are a fit.
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