Real jobs, not renderings

Twenty-six photos of the work itself.

Every photograph on this page is our own work in a real Mukilteo or Everett home or business, not a stock library. Four are genuine before-and-after pairs. The rest are grouped by what they show: a hallway going from wrinkled to flat in three steps, close-up seam and patch work, commercial jobs, and the van and crew who show up at your door.

Before and after

Four real pairs, the same carpet photographed twice. What changes between the two frames is the entire pitch of the business.

A ripple standing up in the carpet at a doorway, tools set down beside it — Before → After

The same doorway after stretching, carpet lying flat through the threshold — Before → After

A room of carpet visibly loose and rippled before stretching — Before → After

The same room after stretching, carpet flat wall to wall — Before → After

A living room carpet buckled into a long wave in front of the fireplace — Before → After

The same living room after stretching, carpet flat to the hardwood transition — Before → After

A close-up of a carpet seam that has separated and started to fray — Before → After

The same seam after repair, closed smooth and hard to find — Before → After

One hallway, three steps

Not every job is a single before and after. This one is a sequence: wrinkled, mid stretch, and flat.

A hallway carpet visibly wrinkled before stretching begins — Wrinkled

The same hallway mid-stretch, part of the wrinkle already pulled out — Mid-job

The same hallway finished, carpet lying flat end to end — Flat

Seams and patches

The close-up work: donor pieces, pattern matching, and the join itself once it is closed.

A finished berber carpet patch where the loop pile lines up and the seam is not visible — A berber patch, finished. Loop pile is the hardest to close invisibly because every loop has to line up.

A close top-down view of a finished carpet patch with the seam barely visible — A finished patch, close up. The join runs through the middle of this frame.

Patterned carpet part way through a seam repair, the pattern being aligned across the join — Patterned carpet, mid-seam. The pattern has to repeat across the join or the eye finds it instantly.

A bedroom carpet shown before and after stretching in a single frame — A bedroom, before and after, in one frame.

A second bedroom carpet shown before and after stretching in a single frame — A second bedroom, same treatment.

Seaming tools, seam tape and a triangular carpet patch laid flat on beige carpet — The tools for a seam repair: tape, iron, and the patch itself.

Commercial work

Two waterfront jobs: a tour boat on the Seattle waterfront and a restaurant on the water in Everett. Commercial carpet takes a different tape and a different tension, and it gets both.

Commercial carpet work aboard an Argosy tour boat on the Seattle waterfront — Seam work aboard an Argosy tour boat on the Seattle waterfront.

A technician kneeling at a window wall aboard a commercial tour boat, patterned carpet underfoot — The same boat, patterned commercial carpet, a different angle.

A wide shot of the Argosy boat job, cut carpet remnants and tools on the floor, ferry visible through the windows — Cut remnants and tools mid-job, the ferry outside the window.

Seam repair tools laid out on striped commercial carpet inside a waterfront restaurant — A waterfront restaurant floor, tools down and the seam open.

A technician cutting seam tape beside a window overlooking the water — Cutting seam tape at the same restaurant, water through the glass.

The van and the crew

What actually shows up: the van, Chris doing the hands-on work, and one very pleased customer who is not paying us for anything.

The Carpets by Chris van photographed from the front, signage legible — The van. What shows up at your curb.

Chris kneeling and stretching carpet at a threshold, a knee kicker and utility knife on the floor beside him — Chris, stretching a threshold by hand before the power stretcher takes the rest of the room.

Chris trimming and securing a carpet edge at a baseboard — Trimming and securing the edge at the baseboard, the last step of a stretch.

A customer's dog sitting on carpet after pet damage was repaired — A customer's dog, back on the carpet it used to chew.

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