Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Harry Roberts on April 12, 2014, 04:52:58 pm
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Hi guys.
Are the orecks any good or not?
H
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I had a go of a customers oreck the other day and was surprised how good it was. I would consider buying one if i was looking.
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What model would be best for us carpet cleaners?
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I really like Orecks.
Like Sebos, underneath, they're basically all the same as each other across the model range. Any Oreck XL will do an excellent job - very light, deep reach with bruch into pile, huge capacity, with outstanding air flow. Rubbish at doing edges though.
They're very light - you can do stairs realy well with it.
I wouldn't bother with any of the solid body models. In Britain, some Vax commercials are essentially Oreck XLs.
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Geeky bit: American commercial cleaners LOVE Orecks. Go to a massive hotel in Vegas, and you'll see armies of these things. They're light, cheap, have huge capacity, easy to repair. Why? Americans love 'dirty air' cleaners - they blow, they don't suck (like a Kirby, Royale, and a whole bunch of other legendary American cleaners). They blow air into the sack, rather than sucking it through the sack. This matters, because a Sebo (for example) is dragging air through layer upon layer of crud drawn from the carpet. All the air must be drawn through every increasing amounts of dirty material. But a 'dirty air' system blows the muck onto muck, and the air can still easily escape through the huge fabric bag. This means that air flow remains higher for longer.
I really recommend the original bags too - expensive, but airflow consistently impressive, and great for asthmatics and such like.
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the vax commercials are a lot cheaper than the Oreck. They are not the best performing machines, if you want a machine that is that light you are going to compromise on performance. Weight is needed to make a beater bar effective, I have found the Kirby to be the most efficient machine that I have used, by quite a long way.
Peter
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More geeky information.....
When I sold kirbys we were told that their roller brush is slightly out of line so it does'nt spin true, this causes it it have a slight vibration which shakes the dirt loose from the carpet pile
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Kirby all the time for me I have a sebo with the red brush as well, the Kirby comes out on top for me IMO you can get a Sentria Latest model from Ebay loads for sale.
The other thing Ilike about the Kirby is the hepa filter bags.