Long Handled Cleaning Tools

Brooms

• Brooms are the ultra classic long-handled cleaning tools. Small, hand-held brooms, do exist and may have their uses, but the long-handled pack a lot more punch. According to Keeping Floors Clean.com, an online guide to flooring care, brooms may be the most common cleaning tool. Sweeping brooms can handle most jobs, but a long-handled push broom does the job for larger areas.

Long Handled Dust Pan

• Dynamic Living, a resource for people living with arthritis, recommends using a long-handled, theater-style dust broom when spring cleaning for individuals who have back problems. Rather than bending over several times in each sweeping session, use a long handled dust pan that allows you to easily and conveniently brush dirt and debris away by sweeping them into the pan for disposal.

Mops

• Keeping Floors Clean.com notes that both wet and dry mops use long handles. Manufactureers make wet mops from a variety of materials. Use them to clean dirt and other materials from a hard-surfaced floor. Dry mops are similar to wet mops but, as the name implies, don't use water for cleaning. Dry mops collect dust and dirt from hard floors. A long handle on either type of mop will save you the aggravation of constant stooping while cleaning.

Bath and Shower Cleaner

• Another long-handled tool recommended by Dynamic Living is a long-handled bath and shower scrubber. Leaning over the tub to scrub mildewy tile in a shower can be dangerous and uncomfortable. Long-handled scrubbers, many of which come with telescoping handles, relieve the burden of having to teeter precariously over the tub while reaching high overhead to clean funky grout.