This morning:

The last of the lauan removal took another 4 hours or so, and we had to exchange our main scraping tool (our new dremel multi) at home depot because it stopped working mid-project!

Nice and clean plywood:

Next up, self leveler. Of course this step also requires another step, Priming. We used mapei WE Primer, which is a two part mix:

Here is our new purple floor, drying and waiting for self leveler:

Baby steps!