Wonder what is under this carpet?

Having finished cleaning and drying the basement we started looking for the next step.  One thought (mine) was to deal with the mold and stink in the "playroom", more on that mess latter.  Gloria wanted to start dealing with the upstairs.  First order of business was to pull up the stinky carpet in my Dad's old room.  We began removing it to reveal that under the carpet pad was the remains of the rubber backing for the old indoor-outdoor carpet which was glued to the wood floor.  A huge mess that in my opinion could only be fixed by new carpet.  Gloria started scraping away at a small area and after a bit began to reveal a wood floor that actually looked pretty good.  After about a week of scraping on this floor most every day for hours she had it looking like this:

In the picture you can begin to see what looks like a hardwood floor under the mess.  At this point Ray and I began studying how to refinish a hardwood floor.  Ray and Gloria rented a drum sander and an edge sander one Friday and the job was on.

All of us took turns with it, the days rental turned into 2 days, four hours which is almost the same as 3 days to home depot.  After a grueling weekend the floor looked like this:

After finishing the first bedroom we moved on to the hallway and eventually the end bedroom

They went much easier as they didn't have any glue to deal with.  The more astute reader may notice that these are actually not hardwood floors.  They are a very nice grade of pine with very few knots.  

Our next decision was what type of finish to use.  We ended up going with Bona Amberseal for the sealer and Bona Mega for the finish.  These are very high quality water based products.  A big thank you to Pete's Hardwood Floors for a ton of information on everything from sanding the floor to what finishes to use.  

Ray did all of the finishing which entailed renting a floor polisher with 120 grit screens for the final sanding as well as sanding the sealer before the finish was applied.  Here are the results:

 The end bedroom:

 Dad's old room: