Best Upright Vacuum Cleaners: Choosing The Right One

If you can imagine life without upright vacuum cleaners you would be going back in history a long way. The first patent in the United States for a vacuum cleaner was given in 1860. A succession of inventors over the following years proceeded to invent newer upright vacuum cleaners with different functions or abilities. Of course those first vacuum cleaners were neither very portable because they were bulky stand up units that also were not light weight like the ones made today.

A lot of the answer here depends on what type of floors you have the most of and how large the areas are that need to be vacuumed. Upright vacuum cleaners use an air pump to create a suction that will suck up the dirt and dust from generally the floor. Although there are some upright vacuum cleaners that have all sorts of attachments and ends that you can use for stairs or upholstery or even vacuuming the drapes if you need to.

If your home is mostly wood floors you can use an upright vacuum cleaner without a lot of extra suction power because the vacuum will not be vacuuming carpet fibers of varying thickness.

But if you have thick carpets you will require an upright vacuum cleaner with some powerful suction so it can get deep into the carpet pile. One example of the best upright vacuum cleaners is the Dirt Devil Featherlite Bagged Upright Vacuum Cleaner which has good suction and is featherlite so it can easily be carried which is a plus for any upright vacuum. 

• You want a soft bumper in the front and sides so when you run into walls or furniture like you are bound to do you will not scuff them up.
• You also want a headlight so you can actually see the place where you are vacuuming if it is on a dark corner or behind a chair or sofa.
• You want one that is easy to push and to carry up and down stairs if you have stairs. Along with this the vacuum should have some length of stretch hose so you can clean up the stairs or around corners of furniture.
• Another good feature is an edge cleaner and a height adjustment so the upright vacuum cleaners can go over various surface heights easily.