Vacuuming posture?

[fan-of-fans]

When you vacuum, do you have a certain posture or method that you use?

Usually when I use an upright, I hold the cord with one hand while I vacuum with the other. I guess just to keep it away from the vacuum. I notice I do this even when the vacuum has a cord grip on the handle.

When I use a canister, I usually just place the canister behind me and hold the hose end with one hand. Sometimes though I hold onto the hose itself with my other hand or hold onto the wand as well as the hose end.

At church I remember one lady who would always use the canister vacuum instead of one of the uprights when she cleaned. She would have the canister behind her, and hold the hose with one hand, and with the hose behind her back, she held the end of the hose with the other hand. I wondered where she got that technique, but I seem to recall it was in the old Electrolux owner's guides. Anyone know if that is true?

 

[huskyvacs]

I'm a cord-holder too. Paranoid of the cord being sucked into the vac. I stand in an "A" position I guess and don;t move back and forth so much, just let my arm outstretch back and forth with the vacuum and then change distance and repeat. I'm right handed so holding a vac in my left hand is weird.

 

[eurekaprince]

The instruction manual for my late grandmother’s Lewyt tub vac showed me the proper way to use a canister vac when cleaning carpets and floors: The hose handle in one hand, with the hose positioned behind your lower back so that the other hand can grip a stretch of hose to pull the canister comfortably behind you.

 

[lesinutah]

Today

With my compact I carried compact in left hand and the handle to power nozzle in the right hand. When I enter a room I go to the furthest section of the room and vacuum towards entryway. The cord gets tangled with the wheels so I carry it and it fixed the problem.
Les

 

[n0oxy]

sidewinder

I mostly use hose cleaners, either canister, backpack or central vacuum, I usually hold the hose handle in one hand and the wand in the other. There is a tool for hose cleaners called the sidewinder that lets you sweep the hose from side to side instead of going back and forth, it does allow you to clean faster and is supposed to be easier on your back.
Mike

 

[pr-21]

I use an Electrolux Canister to vacuum under beds, and on all my hard surface floors. On all hard surface


I vacuum into the room so as not to track thru dirt. I use the power nozzle for the carpets, I back out of the


room while vacuuming. I do the same with an upright. As a collector, I try to rotate my uprights. For touch


ups I use an upright.....I have a micro fiber mop to use on my tile floors and use Shaws Hard Surface


floor cleaner.....no streaks.......good for wood or tile........


 


PS When using the upright, I hold the cord in my left hand to keep it away from the nozzle. When using the


canister, I always push it backwards and toss the cord with it to keep it out of the way.......


 


 


 


 


PR-21


Bud

 

[human]

Single handed...

With an upright, I will often hold a loop of cord in the same hand as I'm gripping the handle to keep tension off the cord where it joins the machine. I leave my other hand free but will grab the cord with it when I need to move it out of the way. For canisters, I just hold onto the hose handle with one hand. I only grasp the hose with my free hand when I need to give it a gentle tug to reposition the canister.