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Are Oreck vacuum uprights the best?

I need a lighter upright vacuum cleaner. Is Oreck the best of the lightweights?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Not necessarily. They certainly are the most expensive. None of these small lightweight machines has enough suction to shake a stick at to begin with. If you've ever had a cannister with a power mate, the part that actually runs on the floor and carpet, then you had the equivalent of the same motor in that power head that you have in one of the lightweight upright cleaners. They are smaller than an average man's fist, with a fan about 3" in diameter. They are basically a power nozzle with a bag attached to the handle. Oreck also advertises that many hotels use their sweepers for their cleaning needs. I've stayed in a lot of hotels, motels over my lifetime and I've never seen an Oreck being used in any of them. There's another lightweight out there priced at about $150 instead of $300 - $700, but I can't remember the name at the moment. I'd do some checking before jumping into any one.

    Source(s): 40 + years of vac repair business
  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    I bumped off all the carpet and put in hardwood flooring or tile throughout the time of my living house. Its lots much less complicated to apply a commercial length dirt sweeper and a professional janitor mop and bucket than the consistent vacuuming that throughout the time of no way ends. i exploit enormous section rugs which would be shampooed, rinsed (then lifted to slip 5 gallon buckets decrease than so it may dry interior the solar) on the driveway as quickly as a 300 and sixty 5 days. in the previous I did that I used to apply a Rainbow vac...any that use water to maintain the airborne dirt and dirt is superb reason it won't be in a position to make smaller debris of dirt interior the air. I have been given so bored with carpet cleaners that does no longer suck out all the water i ultimately ran a hose direct from my water heater and sprayed steaming water on then sucking it up with a inflexible save vac.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yep.

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