Vacuum Cleaners

[Karen2005]

Vacuum cleaners - cylinder or upright?

[smudge]

We have a Sebo Turbo upright vac cleaner with tools, which is absolutley brilliant.

We use an Hitachi cylinder cleaner for the cars, but when I tried it out in the house, it killed my back - so I'd go for upright ones every time. Good luck.

[woofgang]

upright if you have large open areas of carpet, cylinder if you have smaller areas of carpet and less storage room

[spudqueen]

Cylinder - more powerful and so much easier to use, for a start you're not pushing all that weight around, just the hose. Also, much easier for getting under beds, settees etc.

[VINNY100_2]

Its not for nothing that most schools offices and factorys use cylinders.easier to pull than push.do stairs ...under tables etc.(:)

[Karen2005]

Thank you everyone.  I've always used cylinders and can't really get on with uprights (too heavy and cumbersome) but my husband is hankering after a dyson....  

[Solarjunkie]

If you have an upright, you can stick the hose in and voila - you have a cylinder type vacuum which does under cupboards etc.

So why would you ever want just a cylinder?

I have seen people working laboriously across a floor with the tiny little end of a cylinder hose, when I know that easily pushing a wheeled upright would be no effort at all!