Photo gallery

Before and after on real floors around Chattanooga

This summer's work around Chattanooga produced 61 photo pairs across a 72-job run. Everything that cleared review is below. Every floor on this page was cleaned by a LocalPro employee running the same low-moisture process, and the carpet in them was walkable roughly an hour after the van pulled away.

Bedroom carpet heavily soiled in front of a dresser, clean and even afterward — Heavy traffic soil in front of the dresser came out and the carpet dried back to one even color.

Commercial stairwell carpet with dark traffic lanes on the treads, treads clean afterward — The traffic lanes worn into these stair treads cleaned out well.

Bedroom carpet with dirty traffic paths, then even clean carpet along a baseboard — The worn-in traffic paths through this room cleaned out and the carpet looks even again.

Bedroom carpet showing dull traffic streaks beside a bed, then a lighter even finish — The dull streaks through the middle of the room evened out after cleaning.

Red upholstered armchair with pale worn patches on the arms, color even after cleaning — The chalky look on the arms and front of the chair came out and the red evened back up.

Red upholstered armchair in a room corner, dusty and dull, then clean and evenly colored — The dust and surface soil came out of this chair and the color evened back up.

Close view of bedroom carpet beside a bed, dull and patchy, then uniform — Traffic soil lifted out of the bedroom carpet along the edge of the bed.

Bedroom carpet with dark traffic soil, then clean carpet photographed from farther back under a bed — The soiled walking path through this bedroom carpet cleaned up.

Carpet at the base of a wooden dresser, greyed with traffic soil, then clean — The greyed traffic area beside the dresser came back to an even tan.

Wide view of beige living room carpet beside a close view of clean beige carpet — Beige carpet in a finished lower-level living area after a low-moisture clean.

Floral wool area rug, bright cream after cleaning. — The cream ground came back on this floral rug, cleaned right where it lay.

Grey fabric loveseat cushions, soiled and matted on the left, clean grey on the right — Body soil out of the seat cushions on this grey loveseat.

Beige carpet beside a storage cabinet, dark spots on the left, clean carpet on the right — Same corner from the same spot, with the spotting by the cabinet lifted out.

Beige bedroom carpet beside a bed and a white dresser, before and after cleaning — Traffic soil off the bedroom carpet between the bed and the dresser.

Beige bedroom carpet beside a wooden dresser, and carpet next to a bed and wall — Bedroom carpet before and after, shot from two different spots in the room.

Soiled grey carpet by a white bed and hamper, and clean carpet under an office chair — The dark traffic path in front of the bed came out, though the after is a different part of the room.

Carpet edge at a wood threshold, and a carpeted staircase with a wooden railing — Carpet at a doorway on one side and a set of carpeted stairs on the other.

Light grey carpet beside a wooden bed frame, and carpet along a white door and baseboard — Light bedroom carpet cleaned, with the two frames taken from different corners.

Empty bedroom with worn traffic marks across beige carpet, then the same carpet cleaned and even — Same empty bedroom twice, with the traffic lanes cleaned out of the carpet.

Dark soiled carpet beside a pink dresser, and clean light carpet by a white door — Heavy soiling in a child's bedroom carpet, cleaned up, with the after shot from a different angle.

Close-up of tan carpet with dark traffic shading, and the same style carpet cleaned evenly — The traffic shading came out of this carpet, shown close up before and after.

Closet floor carpet with dark soiling on the left, clean even carpet on the right. — The dark shading in the closet carpet lifted out, though the two shots are framed a little differently.

Bedroom carpet beside a red toy car bed, before cleaning and after cleaning. — Bedroom carpet cleaned around the bed, but the camera moved and the difference is subtle.

Hallway carpet at a closet and bathroom doorway, before cleaning and after cleaning. — Hallway carpet cleaned between the closet and the bathroom, though the change is hard to see.

Brown bedroom carpet before cleaning beside cleaned brown carpet near a floor vent and baseboard — Brown bedroom carpet, with the traffic marks evened out after cleaning.

Beige living room carpet with dull traffic lanes beside evenly groomed beige carpet after cleaning — The traffic lanes through this living room lightened up once the carpet was cleaned.

Tan bedroom carpet with a dark traffic path beside clean tan carpet next to a bed — The walkway soiling in this bedroom came out with a low-moisture cleaning.

Grey bedroom carpet with dull patches beside grey carpet with fresh groom lines by wood furniture — Light soiling in this grey bedroom carpet, cleaned and left with fresh groom lines.

Empty room with beige carpet showing brown traffic soiling beside clean light carpet along white baseboards — An empty bedroom carpet, dingy through the middle before cleaning and even afterward.

Tan carpet with heavy brown soiling and orange spots beside clean tan carpet in a corner — Heavy soiling and a few spots on this tan carpet, cleaned back to an even color.

Carpeted stair landing with dark traffic soiling beside the same landing clean by the banister — The top of the stairs takes the most traffic, and this one cleaned up evenly.

Tan bedroom carpet with a dark spot beside the same floor clean inside a bedroom doorway — A single dark spot just inside the bedroom door, gone after cleaning.

Bedroom carpet before and after cleaning, with a bed and dresser at the frame edges — The traffic soil came out of the bedroom carpet and the pile is standing back up.

Large living room carpet with stains on the left, evenly cleaned and groomed on the right — The spots in the middle of the floor came out and the whole room was groomed.

Green sunroom with berber carpet, dull before and clean after, patio doors and bench visible — The sunroom carpet went back to an even color once the traffic soil came out.

Close-up of patterned berber carpet, soiled tan on the left, clean gray on the right — The soil had dulled the whole pattern, and it came back to the original gray.

Gray carpet landing at the top of stairs, dark stain gone in the after frame — The dark spot on the landing came out and it did not wick back.

Tan carpet with a rust-colored stain beside a baseboard, and a wide view of clean carpet — The rust-colored spot along the baseboard came out with a spot treatment.

Beige bedroom carpet against a blue wall, soiled traffic marks before, evenly groomed after — The traffic marks came out and the carpet dried back to an even color.

Light gray carpet in a living room beside an oak and glass end table — This carpet was in decent shape to start, so the difference here is small.

Beige carpet beside a wooden sofa leg, spots visible before and gone after cleaning — The spots by the couch came out and the carpet dried back even.

Gray-tan carpet with traffic soiling before and clean carpet by a hallway doorway after — The walked-on lane and the dark spot came out of this gray carpet.

The caption under each one says what happened on that floor, including the marks that only came part of the way back.

What you are looking at

Room carpet mostly, then stairs, sofas and rugs

Plain room carpet accounts for 36 of the 42 pairs on this page: bedrooms, living rooms, the patch of floor a recliner sits on. After that come sofas and chairs, stair flights, and the odd area rug cleaned on the customer's own floor, because rugs are never carried off to a plant.

The same problems keep turning up. A gray lane from the front door to wherever people sit down. A dark line at the baseboards, where years of air have been pulled through the carpet edge. Pet spots, which photograph small and smell like something a good deal bigger.

Dirt rides in on boots most of the year, and it grinds down into the pile where a surface wash never gets all of it. Our process works the soil loose at the base of the fiber and lifts it out. The bigger swings on this page all come from that. Stair treads, worked by hand one at a time, are usually the clearest example.

How the set gets picked

Why some show the finished floor on its own

A before and an after belong side by side when the phone was in the same spot both times. Plenty of ours were not, because the technician shot the mess on the way in and the result on the way out with both hands full. Those run as the finished frame alone rather than as a pair where a changed angle does half the arguing.

A few never go up at all. If a hose is still lying across the after shot, if the room got caught mid-job with half the floor done, or if the light shifted enough between the two frames to do the cleaning for us, the pair stays out of the gallery.

If yours looks like one of these

How the same result happens on your floor

Three rooms of carpet start at $109 and cover 450 square feet. Sofas, recliners and sectionals are taken piece by piece, with the care tag read before a cushion is lifted. Area rugs are measured and cleaned right where they lie, any fiber, wool and silk and hand-knotted Oriental alike, with nothing carried out of the house. Pet spots get a treatment of their own, because an old urine ring and a spilled cup of coffee never come out the same way.

Call 423-284-0493 and describe the room the way you would over the fence: what the spot is, how long it has been there, what has already been poured on it. Nothing gets switched on until the full number is on paper and you have said yes to it.

You can also text us at 423-284-0493 to get on the schedule. It is the same number you would ring, and it reaches the same people.

The carpet cleaning page covers the low-moisture process behind these floors, and pet stain and odor removal covers the spots that need the protein and enzyme treatment, under a 100% pet odor removal guarantee.

Questions people ask about these photos

Are these photos from houses around Chattanooga?

Yes. Every pair on this page came off a job one of our own crews ran in this market. The phone that took the picture belongs to the person who did the work.

Do you photograph every job?

No. A technician shoots the floors worth shooting, so a good share of the jobs we complete never leave a pair behind. Nobody stops to document a light clean in a spare bedroom that already looked fine on the way in.

Why do some of these show only the finished floor?

Because the phone was not in the same place for both shots. When the angle shifts between the two frames, we publish the finished one on its own.

Will my carpet come out looking like the ones here?

Some of these move a shade and some are dramatic. Soil comes out, and a traffic lane is nearly always soil. Fiber walked flat over fifteen years, or color that bleach has already taken, is a different problem, and the technician tells you at the door which one you are looking at. Love the clean or it is free.

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