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Trebor


Joined: Jan 16, 2009
Points: 321

New Oreck vacuums
Original Message   May 5, 2010 5:19 pm
Today I fortuitously stopped at the local Oreck dealer. 

Mike, the owner of several Oreck franchises and a few multi-brand stores had brought his new Edge upright from home, as stock had not arrived yet.

It has a more powerful motor, with a true  floating head. LED lights, infinite speed control AND and on-board stretch hose with a permanently attached telescopic crevice tool that is automatically active when the handle is in the upright position.  It lacks the Pilot's pivot head and the Halo's germ killing light. A model incorporating all three features is under development.  It is still easy to push, although it weighs 10 lb and requires a bit more effort than previous models.

There is a commercial OBT upright made by Stein (Sebo) that is very nice at only 450.00.  Oreck WILL be offering a bagless upright, but dealer participation is optional.  The new canister is color matched to the Edge and designed to be leaned on as the user vacuums stairs. Odd looking bare floor/crevice tool, no swivel neck. The bristles fold in to form the crevice tool, and the wand is inserted into a neck that curves more than 60 and less than 90 degrees, much like the OLD bare floor tools made of wood with the metal neck screwed on. A turbo tool is included and a dusting brush.

A cute little bagless canister is available for 49.99  Oreck has increased market share and has 89% brand recognition as a vacuum cleaner. They have become #1in  air purifier sales. (Mike did not say if that was dollar volume, or units or both.

The price of the Edge and matching canister will be about 750.00

Oreck is still marketing, still developing product, and still building a loyal customer base.
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Venson


Joined: Jul 23, 2007
Points: 1900

Re: New Oreck vacuums
Reply #179   Jun 16, 2010 3:19 am
Severus wrote:
To me bagged means the dirt is contained within a disposable sack (paper, clothlike, whatever) that can be removed from the vacuum and dropped into the trash.  I've never used a Filter Queen, but my impression is that it's a lot like emptying a shop vac.  By my definition, I consider a vacuum with a cloth shake out bag to be "bagless" because it doesn't have a disposable paper bag. 


Hi,

No disagreement in that Filter Queen does hold dust gathered loose in its collection bin.  What I meant is that bagless as we speak of it today, Dyson as an instance, implies that there is no additional cost beyond the purchase price.  With Filter Queen there definitely is because of the requirement for replacement of used filtering filtering medium with new upon each emptying. 

As far as I recall per industry jargon, cloth bags are listed as permanent bags and non-reusable bags made of paper, etc., are "disposable".  By way of process of collection, a permanent-bagged Electrolux XXX is bagged as it uses a bag to trap the dust and dirt it takes in. 

Other cleaners like Fairfax, Lewyt and Silver King (back in the day), also emulated Filter Queen by employing flat or cone shaped filters above or in the collection bin.  All those filters had tobe purchased on a regular basis.  Nilfisk and Hitachi, I believe, still provide a model or two with cleanable and reusable cloth filters and collection bins  that may fit them in the bagless category as in their case there's no cost beyond purchase.

Best,

Venson

CarmineD


Joined: Dec 31, 2007
Points: 5894

Re: New Oreck vacuums
Reply #180   Jun 16, 2010 7:22 am
Severus, Venson & all

Interesting perspectives on bagged and bagless.  To add too, paper bags inside the cloth in the 50's brands and models before paper alone where either could be the dust containment.  Not sure how these would be categorized by today's perspective.  Tho we have the same today [actaully early 2000's].  HOOVER's dual V with bin/bag and both. 

I still use a Hoover Swingette with cloth and replacement N style paper bags.  That is until the bag supply ends.

Not sure any other bagless/quasi bagless brand made the selling point of saving money w/o using paper bags save Lewyt which went away for good. 

Carmine D.

Trebor


Joined: Jan 16, 2009
Points: 321

Re: New Oreck vacuums
Reply #181   Jun 17, 2010 10:10 pm
There have been statements made to the effect that all vacuum bags clog the minute they collect dirt. The new bags made with the cloth like filter material maintain a very high percentage of initial suction and airflow a they fill, approximately 95%, much higher that the old single layer filter bags.  Miele and others have independent lab test results to back up their claims
vacmanuk


Location: Scotland UK
Joined: May 31, 2009
Points: 1162

Re: New Oreck vacuums
Reply #182   Jun 18, 2010 9:23 am
Yes but dont forget even though there are high filtration bags on the market, Miele have also upped the ante in power. That's why if you try a paper bag in a current high powered Miele, the suction will burst the paper bag even if it doesn't get a chance to clog up with much dust. So even with a bag OR bagless filter on board, the dust has to clog up initially. Such improvements in paper bags that take longer to clog are one thing, they still clog don't they? Is there an alternative or should be considering water collecting vacuums?
This message was modified Jun 18, 2010 by vacmanuk
Severus


If my vacuum can remove even one spec of dirt that yours misses, then mine is better than yours - even if there's no proof that mine would have picked up as much dirt as yours...

Joined: Jul 31, 2007
Points: 397

Re: New Oreck vacuums
Reply #183   Jun 18, 2010 10:19 am
vacmanuk wrote:
Yes but dont forget even though there are high filtration bags on the market, Miele have also upped the ante in power. That's why if you try a paper bag in a current high powered Miele, the suction will burst the paper bag even if it doesn't get a chance to clog up with much dust. So even with a bag OR bagless filter on board, the dust has to clog up initially. Such improvements in paper bags that take longer to clog are one thing, they still clog don't they? Is there an alternative or should be considering water collecting vacuums?


It's a fallacy that vacuums are only effective if the suction is constant.  Vacuums can work quite well over a range of suction/air flows.  Unless you're picking up drywall powder or some other very fine powder exclusively, the suction should be more than adequate over the life of the bag (follow manufacturer's directions).  Given that I have a dog in the house, each time I vacuum, I'm actually picking up additional filter material.  Dirt and dust sticks to the dog hair and carpet fibers that are picked up inside the bag.  My Royal Powercast has an indicator light that is supposed to go on when the suction drops below an optimum level.  the light has never gone on during normal use.  I can stick my hand over the end of the hose and block air flow to make the light go on, so I'm assuming that it actually works.  I'm assuming the Powercast is a pretty good vacuum because when the Rainbow vacuum salesman tried to get dirt out of my carpet, he got nothing. 

The smart tyrant writes his own story to ensure that it is favorable.  The lazy will repeat lines from the book without fact checking. 
Lucky1


Joined: Jan 2, 2008
Points: 271

Re: New Oreck vacuums
Reply #184   Jun 18, 2010 1:49 pm
I have a hard time believing from my experience that a bagless machine, who's filters, screens and bins gather massive amounts of dust, retain maximum suction at all times.
CarmineD


Joined: Dec 31, 2007
Points: 5894

Re: New Oreck vacuums
Reply #185   Jun 18, 2010 2:15 pm
vacmanuk wrote:
Yes but dont forget even though there are high filtration bags on the market, Miele have also upped the ante in power. That's why if you try a paper bag in a current high powered Miele, the suction will burst the paper bag even if it doesn't get a chance to clog up with much dust. So even with a bag OR bagless filter on board, the dust has to clog up initially. Such improvements in paper bags that take longer to clog are one thing, they still clog don't they? Is there an alternative or should be considering water collecting vacuums?


The questions to ask are: 

  • Is the increase suction power due to the increased bag size?  Maintaining constant/better suction over varying degrees of bag fills?  And/or both?  I suspect both.
  • Will installing a MIELE 3.7 qt bag [retired S4 line] in a MIELE made for 4.8 qt [S2/S5] capacity cause a bag to burst?

Carmine D.

This message was modified Jun 18, 2010 by CarmineD
Severus


If my vacuum can remove even one spec of dirt that yours misses, then mine is better than yours - even if there's no proof that mine would have picked up as much dirt as yours...

Joined: Jul 31, 2007
Points: 397

Re: New Oreck vacuums
Reply #186   Jun 18, 2010 3:54 pm
Regarding the new Oreck offerings - are they made in the US?  What is the amperage of the new Oreck Edge? 

The smart tyrant writes his own story to ensure that it is favorable.  The lazy will repeat lines from the book without fact checking. 
Venson


Joined: Jul 23, 2007
Points: 1900

Re: New Oreck vacuums
Reply #187   Jun 18, 2010 4:18 pm
Severus wrote:
Regarding the new Oreck offerings - are they made in the US?  What is the amperage of the new Oreck Edge? 



Hi,

It took a little doing as no one seems to know anything about the Edge even on the customer service line.  However, I was informed by customer servce rep who actually went to check for me that the Edge upright draws 600 watts and its accompanying portable vac pulls 840.  I'm sure any of the Oreck repair people or owners here will say that's well above the draw of past models.

Venson

vacmanuk


Location: Scotland UK
Joined: May 31, 2009
Points: 1162

Re: New Oreck vacuums
Reply #188   Jun 19, 2010 1:53 pm
CarmineD wrote:
The questions to ask are: 
  • Is the increase suction power due to the increased bag size?  Maintaining constant/better suction over varying degrees of bag fills?  And/or both?  I suspect both.
  • Will installing a MIELE 3.7 qt bag [retired S4 line] in a MIELE made for 4.8 qt [S2/S5] capacity cause a bag to burst?

Carmine D.


Well.. prepare to rethink your suspicions. Miele's paper bags are suitable for the S227 to S282 series, i.e.e the much older series by Miele produced in the 1970s to 1980s.

http://www.espares.co.uk/datastore/ProductImages/717097.jpg



They may be retired in the U.S but the S4 and S5 that you refer to are still very much sold in the UK under several different guises. They use the material bags because of the higher motors built in; rather following what other brands are doing otherwise Miele would still only be making vacuums with 1200 watts these days rather than 1800 to 2000 watts AND offer less filtration layers. The force of the higher suction bursts paper bags. Vax also have this problem with their canister Orange 6000 series vac mode and a way around the bursting paper bags is to consider a washable fabric bag since Vax have yet to invest in the material disposable type.

If you try and fit an S4 bag into the S5 it may well fit but I seem to remember that the bag holder grids aren't the same size. S5 bags are bigger due to their capacity and marketing where the models fit into. Neither would the bags burst compared to paper.
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