The same room,
photographed twice

Cleaning is unusually hard to show. Almost every cleaning website in the country uses the same photograph of a bright, empty kitchen — and that kitchen was already clean when the picture was taken. It proves nothing except that somebody bought a stock photo.

So this page is pairs instead. Every picture below is a place we were actually called to, taken on a phone on the day: one frame before anything was touched, one when the job was finished. The finished frame on its own would tell you very little. Put the two together and you can see what the visit was for.

Some of these are not flattering. A cupboard full of crumbs and a stained mattress are not nice photographs, and that is the point — if the before looked acceptable, there would be nothing to show.

Each pair is one picture, with the two frames set side by side as they were taken. Nothing is added to a frame and nothing is taken out of one. Properties are photographed with the customer’s agreement, and door numbers, documents and family photographs are kept out of shot.