You may think that your vacuum is made only for vacuuming carpets and rugs, and you would never have expected to be able to take your vacuum outdoors. Here are some places you might want to use your vacuum.

Car

Instead of stuffing coin after coin into your car to have it vacuumed at the self-service car wash, you can do it yourself. Let’s face it: vacuum cleaners at car washes never work right (and why should they? If they worked right, you could clean your entire car in two minutes, so there’s no need to feed dollar after dollar worth of quarters into the machine). . You can do the job yourself (and for free) in just a couple of minutes, and get even better results.

the boat and rv

If you like to explore the outdoors on the weekends, you probably have a boat or RV. These are easy to vacuum up with a regular vacuum cleaner. If your boat is wet from skiers, be sure to wait it out to dry or use a shop vac to suck up the dirt and water.

Wait wait wait… Those places aren’t exactly “outdoors”

Okay you’re right. She probably wants to know how to use her vacuum outside her house. If you have a long enough power cord, you’ll be able to vacuum just about anywhere.

The first place to vacuum is your deck. If you have a blow function on your vacuum, this will be very easy to do. Otherwise, it won’t hurt to vacuum up dry leaves and bugs in your bagless vacuum. Also, you can just dump the canister over the side of the deck and be done with the whole task in a matter of seconds (just make sure you empty the canister upwind from the deck, otherwise it’s all going back onto the deck). .

Once you’re done with your deck, take your vacuum to the garage. You may be sweeping every week, but look up. With the hose and extension wands, remove cobwebs and blow dust out of storage boxes.

After cleaning up the yard, you can blow the grass clippings off the sidewalk with your vacuum. Sure, you could take out the leaf blower and use it, but that would probably involve putting gas in it, turning it on, and then draining the gas when you’re done. With a vacuum, you just plug it in and turn it to blow.

With a vacuum that you’re not afraid to take outside, you’ll find more uses for it and help save you time. All you need is a long extension cord to get you where you want to go.