Oreck HEPA Cordless Upright Bagged Vacuum Cleaner, Lightweight Machine for Pets and Home, BK95520PC, Blue

Very impressive
Since we’re indoors for the most part on most days now, it’s important for us to have the place looking spotless 🧼Cleanliness and tidiness is of utter importance, especially with everything going on. The main obstacle when it comes to keeping our apartment clean has to be the floors. Our floors are light beige, and hence require a lot of maintenance. We pretty much have to vacuum every single day. Even then, it gets dirty pretty easily because of dust settling and our excessive hair fall. Our old vacuum wasn’t picking up all the particles, and we’ve been searching for a more efficient vacuum cleaner ✨ The Oreck Hepa is impressive with its features and delivers a powerful cordless cleaning. The Hepa filtration bags have 4X more capacity and pick up 99.97% of unseen particles. This vacuum is perfect if you have pets, carpets, or hard to clean floors like we do. I’m genuinely very happy with it! 😊 

Pretty Expensive for Short Run Time and Fatigue Resistance on Carpet
The Good:* Very light weight which Oreck is kind of known for, since it is a vacuum brand which targeted hotel and motel cleaning staff early on. However, its light weight gives it no advantage when sweeping carpet, as explained in the “Not So Good” section below. The light weight is beneficial, only on hard surfaces or for picking up and carrying it around.* Very bright LED lights along the front edge to illuminate your sweeping path.* Vacuum bag which is quite a bit larger than most vacuums of this type.* Has a handle 2/3 of the way up the post on the backside, to facilitate lifting and also vacuuming stairs.* A unique feature of this vacuum is a hard plastic piece (kind of like a hard plastic squeegee blade) which runs the width of the vacuum head, behind the rotating brushes, which insures that when you are sweeping hard surface floors, that the debris does not get kicked past the rear of the vacuum, due to the rotating brushes, and instead insures that the suction picks it up. Most sweepers with rotating brushes which don’t disengage with the push of switch, simply fling debris behind them. BUT, below you will note the negatives on this feature.The Not So Good:* It only has an 18 minute run time on a full charge, which is fine for one large room, but if you plan on vacuuming several rooms, you may run out of juice before you are done. From a full charge, I used a stop watch to see how long it will go.* Although you can tilt the handle shaft parallel to, and all the way down to the floor, in order to navigate under furniture such as a sofa, the height of the sloped sweeper head housing is 5″ tall, which I found limits your ability to really get under a sofa frame. You can only get a couple inches under a typical sofa, many of which have the frame at about 3-4″ clearance between the floor or carpet and the bottom of the sofa frame.* The unique feature mentioned above in the “Good”, which is the debris “kick back” strip which touches the floor behind the rotating brushes, makes a fairly loud scraping noise on hard surface floors, since it is in full contact with the surface being vacuumed. It also creates quite a bit of resistance in contact with carpet, which can lead to fatigue in some individuals, trying to push it forward on the carpet. As a 6’2″, 190 pound male, I had to exert some muscle to move the vacuum across short to medium pile carpet. I think that this resistance is the biggest drawback to this sweeper, in addition to what I consider a short run time.* No additional attachments (such as brushes, or crevice tools, etc.) so it does only one thing….vacuum floors.Although I received this vacuum at no charge from Amazon, within the Amazon Vine Reviewers Program, in exchange for an honest review, after using it, there is no way that I would pay what is sells for, if I were to purchase it. We have a very large house (5,400 square feet….7 bedroom, 5 bath, 2 story, with finished basement), so we like to have a vacuum on every floor, so we don’t have to carry one up and down stairs. Fortunately for me, over the last year or so, I have acquired a couple of other vacuums at no charge in the Amazon Vine Program. Those other vacuums are a Dyson and a Bissell. The Dyson is a cordless Dyson V6 which is also about this same price as the Oreck, and it only has a 15 minute run time on a full charge, which I also would not endorse, due to cost. The other one is a cordless Bissell ICONpet, stick vacuum, slightly less expensive, which has a variable power control, which extends run time to 26 minutes. The Dyson and the Bissell, on carpet are far more user friendly due to their light weight (like the Oreck), and their lack of rolling resistance, contributing minimal fatigue factor. I prefer the Bissell among the three. So, you be the judge.