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For pulling nails and staples, I always reach for my pair of "end cutters" ( wire cutter pliers ). If the end of the cutter is not "flush", then grind on them until it is flush, that will allow you to grab onto a staple or nail that is just darn near flush with the surface. Makes quick work of pulling these fasteners.

Now that im on an actual desktop...
Heres where i'm at now.

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The teal in the pictures is my phones flash. kyrocera has the right idea for a "rugged smartphone" but bad execution in quality.

The back corner behind the shower has rot so I'm replacing the entire corner and so does the roof trusses. In a couple you can see the separation of the studs that I want to use plates to keep them together. WHOEVER said, Fema trailers were built like **** has never taken one apart or done mine. Good lord... No wonder it got backed into a '78 F250 and received no damage. Trying to come up with a plan of attack but not sure. I know what I want to do but not sure in what order I should do it in.
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my multi-tool vibrating jobby cuts them off at the wood base quickly and easily.
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I hired a high school student to remove the nails and (brads(?) from a couch I was reupholstering once. Well worth the $100.00 she charged me.
I have a limited interest in certain tedious chores.

Pounding nails and stables IN runs the risk of the extra pounding loosing the joints. Best to pull them. Yes, it's work! But you need to restart with clean studs.

I've remodeled (almost) our entire 2800 square foot house (single floor) down to the studs with new insulation and dry wall. I have to remove acres of the old 1960's Masonite wall paneling, all attached with small flat headed finishing nails. After the panels were pulled off, I had to go up and down each stud and pull every single nail. Yes, it's time consuming! No, there are no short-cuts. It's labor intensive! But one nail missed will not let the panel, drywall, wood, or whatever you are attaching to the wall to lay flat. Even after I though I had every single nail, when I went to attach the dry wall, sometimes it would not lay flat. I'd check, and sure enough, there was a nail I missed.

Multiply this by 4 wall, and 10 room and 2 hall ways (and I still have one more room to go after 7 years of living here), that's a LOT of old nails. No easy way, none. Pull the nail, drop it in a bucket, then dump the bucket into your trash and let the trash truck haul it away.

I helped my in-laws gut out and remodel a small camper several years ago. We removed every bit of everything attached to the studs. No easy way ... pull the nails and staples!

If I have to re-apply a product every 6 months and it costs more than a product that's cheaper and can last 35 years, its junk. Now, when they named eternabond, they named it right. That will bond to anything for an eternity!
As far as weight goes, her max gcvw is 6200. I do plan on putting 3500# axels under her when I can and not everything will be site built components but most. Rv things are not something you can get at a Lowes of home depot and tend to be more expensive and just look cheap. How can I post pictures here from a phone?

Cruiseomatic wrote:
not using rv type junk such as dicor

If you're not using Dicor because it's junk, definitely don't seal your roof with Eternabond. It's pure garbage. :B

Keep us updated on your project and post some pics. And, watch your weight as you add site built house components.

It sounds like a cool project.

I wanted to pull them all out but wasn't sure if just hammering them in would be fine. I mean there is about 200 lbs of them....They didn't cheap out on them that's for sure.

Vice grips and start pulling. Sure you can do this if you don't know what to do with the nails and staples