Do backpack vacuums live up to the hype?
It's a great question and we're going to talk about
the pros and cons of backpack vacuums today.
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Okay, onto today's question which is about backpack vacuums.
Are they worth the hype?
It's a really interesting question and it's going to come down to personal preference.
Again with any vacuum the one that's best for you is the one that you're going to use
on a regular basis.
If you are a homeowner you may not want to use a backpack vacuum because it's more really
for commercial probably or industrial use.
There are house cleaners that use them as part of their business.
And usually they are used in teams of two.
So there's one person that is specifically designated to just doing the vacuuming because
if you're a solo house cleaner to take it on and off becomes a little bit cumbersome
going from room to room.
But if you have one person and that's their only job, when they're done is they do all
the vacuuming and they vacuum the whole house, it becomes very easy to do and it shaves a
lot of time off the vacuuming process.
What are the pros and cons?
First I should tell you that I belong to a group of professional house cleaners and there
are over 6,700 professional house cleaners from around the globe and over the last year
we've had multiple conversations on backpack vacuums.
And so this is a compilation of all of the findings from that group and I have links
in the show notes to the best backpack vacuums with the best warranties that they recommend
that they use.
Here is what we found.
The pros to having a backpack vacuums is like I said a minute ago, it shaves a lot of time
off the vacuuming process.
Instead of you pushing and pulling a vacuum, you get to just have it on your back and you
get to go through and do it all at once.
So imagine out raking a yard where you're doing all this movement where you're raking
and it's all your body movement moving the rake as opposed to having a blower strapped
on your back where you just blow the leaves and it goes so much easier.
Yes it's physical labor for both of those tasks as it is with vacuuming but the one
strapped to your back is going to go a lot quicker.
So if speed is what you're looking for, the backpack vacuum absolutely wins this vote.
All right one of the cons of having a backpack vacuum is that when you're wearing the backpack
vacuum, if you turn sideways, your body is only width ways about that big.
And you strap on a vacuum attachment to that which is a great big canister on your back,
instead of your body being this wide, now your body is like this wide.
And so you have to take into consideration the space around you as you're moving about
in your vacuuming, it's easy to bump into a wall or a mirror that could easily shatter
and break because you don't see what's behind you and you know how far you have behind you
and the tables, it's easy to back into a lamp or something like that that then goes crashing
to the floor.
The con to the backpack vacuums is that it's like you're a bull in a china shop.
You have to be incredibly careful about your surroundings so you don't go bumping and knocking
into things.
All right one of the cons to the backpack vacuum is that instead of rolling a regular
vacuum around on people's carpets, what happens then is you're rolling the wheels of your
vacuum over dust and hair and dog hair and whatever that in other peoples' houses then
when you go to the next house you have to clean the exterior of your vacuum so that
you don't wheel all of that onto the next person's carpet.
So for sanitary reasons, having it on your back leaves it all right there on your back
and so you're not running that over people's carpets.
Now the head piece that actually goes on the floor, yes you are and that you'll have to
clean.
But the whole vacuum itself, the wheels that's not on someone else's carpet.
So that's one of the pros.
All right one of the cons to the backpack vacuum is that when you strap a vacuum which
is a machine on your back it heats up.
And so as you're going around vacuuming the floor, especially in the summertime, you got
a backpack on your back, that's like wearing a backpack in the middle of the summer.
It gets really hot and sweaty and now you're sweating profusely because you're already
moving about really quickly just being a house cleaner.
Now you times that by having a piece equipment on your back and now it's just that much hotter.
So hot, sticky, sweaty, not a fan of the people that use it.
Those are a couple of pros and cons to the backpack vacuums.
The recommendation for people using backpack vacuums is that you use them for commercial
use because in tight spaces, if you have small hallways and small closets, you're not going
to fit inside there with the canister on your back.
One of the pros is that if you're going up a flight of stairs, it's so much easier than
carting the big upright vacuum up the stairs with you.
It's great for things like stairs, it's great for things like wide hallways.
Not so great for tiny spaces.
So there are pros and there are cons.
There are people that absolutely love them and there are people that totally hate them.
And so it's really a personal preference depending on what you like best.
And I've got links in the show notes to a video on how to wear a backpack vacuum properly
if you're going to use one for your business.
All righty.
So that's it for today.
This is just a little bit about the backpack vacuums and should you consider one.
Some people say yes, some people say no.
All righty so until we meet again,
leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it.
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