Buying an Oreck Vacuum Cleaner

In my opinion, you buy an Oreck vacuum cleaner because you need a lighweight upright vacuum cleaner for your carpets. If the weight of the vacuum is not important to you. move on to another premium brand vacuum cleaner and enjoy the boost in performance. If it is important, we can provide you with the ability to make a cost effective decision regarding Oreck vacuums

Oreck has a variety of lightweight upright vacuum cleaners available at any given moment. It is not the strongest vacuum by any means, but it can perform relatively well on low to mid pile carpets.

Oreck offers some very expensive lightweight vacuum cleaners that provide varying levels of filtration. If you actually stand behind an Oreck XL or one of the many lighweight variations, you will notice an exhaust grill near your left foot. When the vacuum is being used, a fair amount of debris is recirculated into the air, with the remainder of the debris making it's way to your vacuum bag.

You can only do so much with a light vacuum cleaner, so I'm not trying to pick on Oreck by any means. My point is that these vacuums have limiations regarding their ability to effectively filter the debris that they remove from your carpet.

If filtration is not a major selling point, then I would recommend you buy a less expensive model in there product line, which for the last 5 to 10 years has been the Oreck Commercial vacuum cleaner.

Oreck has more than one commercial vacuum. You are looking for any Oreck commercial vacuum that looks like there residental lightweight models in the $200 to $300 range (like the Oreck Oreck XL2000 HHB).

Oreck Vacuum Review - Commercial lightweights

Pros:

The Oreck XL2000 HHB features the same ergonomic handle as the higher line Oreck vacuum cleaners.
The motor provides that same suction as the more expensive models..
The on / off switch is on the handle.
There is a commercial grade power cord on the vacuum.
Good vacuum for residential and small commercial cleaning services. Easy to carry around.
Bags, belts, and parts are widely available, and will most probably remain that way for years.

Cons:

The only con I see with the Oreck XL2000 HHB as compared to similar Oreck residental light vacuum cleaners is the obnoxious color scheme.

As far as performance goes, I wouldn't recommend a lightweight upright vacuum cleaner to anybody who suffers from asthma or allergies, has pets that shed a lot, or lives in an area that results in a lot of sand being tracked into the home.

More on Oreck vacuums

I would recommend that you buy either the Oreck Celoc or Oreck generic micro-filtered vacuum bags to reduce the amount of debris that enters the bag area from being redistributed into the air.

Oreck lightweight uprights (and most of the other upright lightweight) vacuums have a fan that send debris to the bag area. That means you need to be careful of what you vacuum or you could break fan (beware of coins or small hard objects).