They said some stains..

Last night after watching "Scoop" the newest woody allen movie at home, we decided we would (at 10pm no less) tear up the carpet in the guest room to check out the hardwood floors. When we bought the place we were told there were hardwoods under the carpet, and when we asked why they were covered up with carpet, they told us there were some stains. Apparently the old renters had some dogs which weren't housetrained. Well, when they said "some" stains, we crossed our fingers that "some" meant "few". I guess our luck had just run out! See the sequence of pictures below to see what we are dealing with for our hardwood floors.

The carpet pad is ready for the unveiling.

Here is our first glimpse of some stains. The finish has been completely taken off in some of these places. We crossed our fingers that this would be all we would find.

However, then we found these bigger stains.

After pulling staples and prying off the tack strips, we are left with this mess...

We decided to go ahead and put the furniture back in the room, since there isn't much we can do with the floor at this point. If you squint and look at the picture you can kind of see how nice it will look eventually --when we get the floors refinished.

We have been thinking that if the stains are that bad in that room, odds are they are just as bad everywhere else. We are trying to decide if we want to just go ahead and rip up all the carpet, see what we have to work with, and just get the floors refinished before we get another dog. Of course, that means that our bathroom remodel will have to wait a little bit longer. David may wake up today with a new idea about what he wants to do about the floors, so we'll see.