Neat project! I just finished a daylight basement remodel, the corner of which is my new office, and I learned a lot of the same lessons. GRK screws are super nice. Rock wool is way nicer to work with than fiberglass. Expanding spray foam can go into lots of nooks and crannies to make a space feel less drafty. Chalk lines marking the studs are a great idea.
One lesson that I'll add is that a dry wall lift (https://www.amazon.com/Drywall-Lifter-Rolling-Caster-Constru...) changed my project from "nigh-impossible" to "totally doable". I hung almost a 1000 sqft of drywall on the ceiling solo with that thing. Even if I never use it again, it was worth the money.
Now to go read all of OP's solar design posts to prep for my next project.
Why not just rent the drywall lift? If your work stretches across a week it's not cheaper, but the goal would be to rent the lift, hang all the drywall, return it to the lumber-yard/home improvement store/hardware store by the end of the day.
1000 sq ft of drywall is probably several evenings of work for a DIY'er, and not something you want to force into one long day.
I will sometimes buy tools like this (new or for craigslist) and resell on craiglist, and then I think of it as "renting from craigslist" but without a deadline to return it.
When I was doing house solar (big ground mount 15.9kW system), I really beat the hell out of myself trying to finish with a rental jackhammer in a day. I was drilling the holes and the auger was bouncing off the hardpan, so I rented a jackhammer... and it was an electric beast, not a light pneumatic version. Anyway, I got it done in a day of pounding, but I was not in good shape the next few days.
Having low stress of getting it done is nice.
Also, depending on the area you live and the community you're part of, that sort of thing may just go into the general rotation of "Oh, yeah, I've got one of those." I'm borrowing someone's portable cement mixer right now for deck footings, a friend up north has my auger, I've got his subsoiler... in rural areas, useful tools tend to just wander around, and as long as people have a vague sense of where they might be, it's not a big deal.
Good point. I’ve got friends who use the same approach, but I gotta say, I think they do less reselling of things than they think. But that’s not really a problem (unless you run out of room) of course.
One lesson that I'll add is that a dry wall lift (https://www.amazon.com/Drywall-Lifter-Rolling-Caster-Constru...) changed my project from "nigh-impossible" to "totally doable". I hung almost a 1000 sqft of drywall on the ceiling solo with that thing. Even if I never use it again, it was worth the money.
Now to go read all of OP's solar design posts to prep for my next project.