KirkG

I would suggest gutting one bedroom and installing plumbing and piping in conduit there insulate and drywall and paint. put a temporary panel there and run many circuits (5-10) to the multiple plugs in that room and making that your work room living space. Have a conduit leaving the panel to tie into the final electrical system later and/or make this a junction box.

Have the air conditioner, a temp camp kitchen and workshop and bed, small armoire (closet). You can camp out there for the duration with an additional storage container in the yard for closet and possessions. Maybe a porta potty and or exterior shower set up.

Now you can gut the rest of the house and work quickly without having to trip over yourself. Easier to do plumbing and electrical and insulation when they are all opened up. Much more labor savings than trying to cut and paste. Also the first room you can abandon the plumbing since it wasn't intended to be permanent in the first place. And you can think of it as a dry run for the rest of the work.

I started with a 25 oz hammer because I was "told" that is was the right sized hammer for framing. I am not a big man, so after struggling to nail overhead, I moved down to a 21 oz. hammer.

I have lower back pain so I want to reduce the weight on my hips and since I use nail guns to drive most nails nowadays, I went to carrying a 16 oz finish hammer. The 14 oz Titanium hammer my friend loaned me was even lighter than that and drover the nail even better. Not having to fight the weight of the hammer improved my accuracy as well.

This was brought even more to my attention when my kids, two boys (10) and girl(14), were helping me to build a shed for my property. Each of them preferred to use the Titanium even to the point of using the 10oz finish model, that my dad bought, to drive framing nails.

So while my arm still hurts after a lot of nailing, my back feels better and a lot more work gets done.