Powered cleaning equipment
Upright vacuum
Upright vacuum: Dry-vacuums floors or carpets when the machine is designed for the surface. Accepted recognition cues: upright handle and body and floor nozzle integrated at the base.

- Primary use
- Dry-vacuums floors or carpets when the machine is designed for the surface.
- Recognition cues
- upright handle and body; floor nozzle integrated at the base
- Evidence
- Strong entry-level support
- Scope
- Watchlist or reference-only
- Practice status
- Reference-only; excluded from scored practice.
Publication restriction
Reference-only: Before scored upright-vacuum versus carpet-extractor comparison use, obtain specialist comparative signoff; the selected drawings represent specific generic configurations, not universal silhouettes.
This restriction comes from the release record; the tool never appears as a scored answer option while it remains.