- The perfect vacuum cleaner for hard-to-reach places like high ceilings, blinds, mantels and recessed lighting. You can carry it, or wear it over your shoulder.
- Strong enough to pick up a 16-lb. Bowling Ball.TM
- Uses Oreck sanitary hypo-allergenic disposable dust bags. Not a dust cup.
- Comes with a complete set of attachments designed to clean everything from computers to chandeliers.
Meet an indispensable tool in the Oreck cleaning arsenal – the Oreck Super Deluxe Compact Canister Vacuum Cleaner. Because it weighs barely 5 pounds, you can carry it, or wear it over your shoulder.
Ideal for all those hard-to-reach, hard-to-get-to places, there are at least 101 uses for this amazing Oreck canister vacuum cleaner. In addition to being a great car vacuum cleaner, it works on everything from tall ceilings to sofas. The Oreck Super Deluxe Compact Canister Vacuum Cleaner is also a blower for dirt and debris lodged in crevices and corners. It’s versatile. It comes with a complement of attachments- including a mini tool set for computers, answering machines, and delicate art objects, and a vinyl tool caddy.
Besides having incredible power, what truly separates the Oreck Super-Deluxe Compact Canister Vacuum Cleaner from all others is that it uses Oreck sanitary hypo-allergenic disposable dust bags. Not a dust cup. Oreck has even designed a Posi-Lock, easy-access bag door to a
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I love this little vac. Okay — let’s look at some of the negatives other people have mentioned:
1. Too many parts. Pshaw! Most little vacs come with one suction opening, a little mouth on the front like a fish. Oreck designed this one better by attaching a hose to the front like the grown-up canisters. And, to make things even nicer, they gave us several different cleaning tools. So there’s no place to store them on the vac. So what?! It’s a small machine. It would be cumbersome to have those attachments hanging off the canister body while one works. Here’s how you handle the parts: get a little mesh (see-through) drawstring bag like they sell for laundry and put them in there. Then put a little hook on the wall wherever you keep your upright vac and your vac bags. Problem solved.
2. Strap doesn’t fit: Pshaw again. I’ve never had a problem with the strap because I hold the vac with the handle on the body. But those straps are inexpensive and you can get a longer one in the camping section of any department store. Problem solved.
3. Electric cord doesn’t have a home: What? Have we become the pitied Eloi and can’t figure out how to wind a cord up by itself? Cords are easily wrapped around one’s arm — just pretend it’s a long extension cord. And you can put an elastic hair band around it to hold it in place. Problem solved
4. Suction sucks/Parts fall off/ doesn’t work/Oreck won’t fix it without a receipt: The Oreck vac I got wasn’t defective. And, I don’t know anyone who will fix a product without the receipt. Can find a receipt? The way to solve this? Take a plastic zip lock bag and every time you buy something with a warranty, put the warranty and the receipt in the bag. Put the bag with your important financial papers.
Now, the good stuff:
It worked right out of the box, it’s never broken, and I’ve had it for 5 years. It gets used a couple of times a week in the home and in the car when needed. The attachments are easy to put on and do not fall off. The suction works fine and picks up lots of cat hair. It’s wonderful for stairs.
The HEPA filter bags are so nice I’ll never go back to a mini vac that just throws the dirt into the back compartment where you empty it in a cloud of allergens. These also keep it from throwing a percentage of the dust back into the air as most little vacs do. It’s clean and easy. The bags hold a surprising amount of dirt. If you have problems finding bags when you need them, see #1 above. I keep my vac supplies in bags on hooks on the wall where I store my vacs.
It would have been nice to have a rotating brush on the front, but this was never an option with this particular device because it has a hose instead of jaws.
All in all, I like my little Oreck vac. It’s a very well-designed, rugged, and usable machine.
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I live in a one bedroom apartment with hard wood floors. The Oreck Super-Deluxe Compact comes with all the attachments you’d need to clean it. It’s small, so the capacity wouldn’t be great enough for anything larger, although it would be perfect for a lightweight spot-cleaning vacuum when you didn’t want to have to drag out the big guns (sort of like a Dust Buster, except they suck in the bad way).
The attachments are designed for hard surfaces, so if you have a lot of thick rugs you may want to look for something else. The attachments are perfect for walls, upholstery, and hard-to-dust areas (books, blinds, keyboards, baseboards).
The vacuum has a hypoallergenic filter which would be great if the exhaust (the blower) didn’t blow straight out the side, blowing dust, papers and other light objects off shelves and countertops; the unit has a strap you use to carry it over your shoulder. A quick solution: The exhaust is also a blower, so all the attachments fit there, as well. Affix the wall or duster attachment to the exhaust and aim the air-flow up.
Bottom line: The price is right on this little guy. It’s the quietest small vacuum I’ve ever owned. The suction is amazing and it doesn’t diminish too much as the bag fills (not something I could ever say about bag-less vacuums where you’d have to clean the filter before each use).
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