Oreck "HALO" vacuum

[williamr1248]

What will they try and sell us next! Has anyone seen the infomercial with the new Oreck "Halo" vacuum. It has two motors. One to run the brush and one for the Halo light chamber. I had to just turn off the infomercial. I have an Oreck and it's soooo loud I can't stand to use it. Wonder if these new Orecks are any better? They are telling us "IF THE LIGHT IS ON, THE GERMS ARE GONE"-yeah right! What do you think? Now they have tools attached to the machine. I thought their whole thing was to sell you the separate canister cleaner!

 

[myvacsrock]

Halos..

These are not actually made by Oreck, if i am wrong correct me, but i am 99% sure they are not. Honestly, i think they are made in some "cheap China" factory, kinda like everything else.

 

[hoovercelebrity]

Halo...

They were based in Charlotte, NC... and I heard that Oreck bought them out. So, now I wouldn't be surprised if they've merged the two.

...Yup, it's true. Just googled it.

See link:

http://www.oreck.com/upright-vacuum-cleaners/oreck_halo.cfm

 

[vinvac]

Halo,

Again, another way to lure people in...you will never convince me that a UV light is going to kill all those germs in one pass of the vacuum....but I am sure they will sell...look at bagless...they seemed to make it.

Just my own two cents here, but at some point we are going to kill ourselves off by using so much anti-bacterial anti-germ...whatever...your body needs to keep building a resistance to such things...if you take that all away - when something does hit....your body can't protect itself.

But if anyone can market this, it will be David Oreck.

Side note...Wal-Mart here in Dubuque Land is now carring the Hoover/Oreck version of a lighweight cleaner. The canister looks to be a sturdy machine as well as the upright, but the tools on the canister can not compare to the Oreck. However, the bag in the canister is a good Hepa quality bag...much better than the Oreck....wish I could try one to see what they are like. I think they may go over well as the price is only 398.00.....giving Oreck a run for the money.

Morgan

 

[myvacsrock]

Wow!

I am surprised! how cool, yet if it is anything like Oreck junk....well..i think you know..

 

[ohio_tuec]

Oh come on, Kyle, do you have to call it "junk?" Obviously, you don't think all Oreck is junk. You do have an XL-4000 in your collection. Must we use such harsh language?

 

[petek]

UV light will kill any germs as they pass by or thru the light BUT all those germs are more or less instantly replaced my millions more the second anything touches the "cleaned" area so the whole process is rather pointless. We don't live in sterile environments so sterilizing something as silly as carpet is futile.

 

[myvacsrock]

Not to put it down further but...

Do people go slow enough for the light to actually work? I mean i don't go fast, but i also don't spend all day vacuuming, so that's all i am wondering about.

 

[petek]

There really isn't a "time limit" as to how long germs have to stay in the light to be killed iirc they are killed instantaneously when exposed to UV light no matter how brief. UV lights have long been used in things like electric clothes dryers and water filtering systems. The point is it's pointless killing them on something as dirty and germ laden as a floor is to begin with. . It's not different than when you run your dishwasher on a "sanitize" cycle. The second your fingers touch those dishes to remove them from the dishwasher they are no longer "sanitized" they are covered with germs again. Besides the types of "germs" normally found around the house aren't that harmful to begin with unless someone in the house is carrying a horribly infectious disease and no vacuum cleaner is going to help with that.

 

[sleepdoc]

"Junk"

Oreck's machines aren't junk. This, however, is gimmicky, which I don't like. I actually think it's beneath Oreck's dignity to gimmick like this.

 

[vintagehoover]

'I actually think it's beneath Oreck's dignity t

Not like those wonderfully-scientific bowling-ball ads, then?

 

[sleepdoc]

Snap, Jack...

 

[vinvac]

"Junk" is a very strong term for a good vacuum. I never thought of Oreck as a good vacuum until I had one given to me as a gift. It is my daily driver and I would not be with out it.

I have the deluxe model, and quite frankly, it will out clean a lot of vacuums out there. It may not be the most well built machine, but for me it does exactly what I want it to do.

Gimmick's get me as well, the bowling ball, now the Halo...germ killing machine...but regardless of what we think, the man has built a wonderful business and has done very well for himself...

Morgan

 

[mattl]

Second or Third the thought.....JUNK

Junk is the operative word for Oreck vacs. My aunt has one, we all tried to talk her out if it, but I used it once when I did some work in her family room and it's junk. Awkward to use, stupid forward facing handle, too light to get down into the carpet and get the junk out of the fiber. No thanks. Oreck the Ronco or Bose of the vacuum world.

 

[tolivac]

Oreck "Halo"-Thats about as ridiculous as the "Hygenitech" Kirby matteress vacuum with the add on UV light.UV germicidal light may be nice-but think its useless on a vacuum cleaner.

 

[williamr1248]

Oreck Halo

I think maybe "junk" is a little strong. I agree with Patrick and Morgan. I have the yellow Oreck. I will have to say it is one of my least favorite vacuums. Not because of the quality issue but because it just does not work well in my house. The bags seems to be good. I don't like having to keep lifting the machine to change surfaces and I don't like the high pitched sound of the motor or the "stripes" it leaves on my carpeting, but I know Orecks have customers that love the machine. Just from watching the infomercial this Halo machine does not look to be the same quality as the rest of their line. Hate to see Oreck go the route of the Hoover company and lose their idenity. If there is ONE thing I have learned from the vac club is that there is no ONE correct vacuum for everyone and every situation. It will be interesting to see if this "Halo" is a success.
Rob

 

[turbo500]

I agree the "Junk" term to be honest. In my 2 experiences of using Oreck vacuums I have found them to be ridiculously loud and have minimal suction power. They're great sweepers, but for what you get, i'd sooner have one of those rechargable carpet sweepers. Overpriced pile of badly made, badly designed and poorly performing junk. It doesn't even SOUND like it's doing anything. Even with my old Electrolux 502, you can hear the air wooshing through it. Those Oreck informercial's have me in stitches when they start slagging off bagless vacuums. Anybody on here that's chatted with me before knows about my sheer disgust of bagless vacuums - but I'd sooner own a bagless machine than an Oreck. At least all those cheap bagless vacuums have some sort of suction. I can safetly say, an Oreck is something that will never enter my house.

 

[ohio_tuec]

Die-Soon

Well, that's why Baskin Robbins makes 31 flavors. You Turbo500 are NOT AN ORECK CUSTOMER! I consider the Dyson "junk." I have two (both I only have because I found them in the garbage). The roller brush is nothing more than a ruler with bristles on the end that tears up the carpet fibers. Their customer service is absolutely atrocious (you have to go through a third party to order anything) and the machine is waaaay overpriced from the getgo. To top it all off, you're paying all this money for a machine that's not even made in the UK anymore! I hate James Dyson for what he did to his UK employees, I'd love to see him in an episode of Celebrity Deathmatch against Simon Cowell.

 

[vintagehoover]

Overpriced!

That's an interesting comment. In the UK, an Oreck XL7 retails at £419. The TOL Miele S7 Autocare HEPA S7580 upright sells for £322.20. Unless weight was the deciding factor, who would possibly spend nearly £100 more on the Oreck?!

Over here, Orecks are sold primarily to the elderly as a lightweight upright, mainly through ads in the back of Saga Magazine (insurance and cruise-ship holidays for the over-50's). They also bombard people with junkmail in an attempt to promote their product. I mean, come on - they still brag about their 'top-fill bag'!

Dyson customer service in the UK is excellent, I've used it myself. A same-day response from the engineer, and everything done totally free under the 5-year warranty.