Oreck - XL Pro 5 Super Compact Canister Bagged Vacuum Cleaner

Good place to start is SEBO Felix and Dart. I’m also A fan of the oreck power team: an oreck elevate series upright and a compact canister. Less expensive options that work well for small spaces and are more affordable: kenmore Intuition. It’s bagged, and does well on hard floor and carpet. Unfortunately there aren’t tons of bagged options that are compact and upright. Plenty of canisters though.

I use an Oreck XL Pro and find it works great for personal use.

Love ours. We have the Cat & Dog. There is a learning curve to all the settings but once you get that down, it's pretty painless. It's over ten pounds lighter than our old Orec canister and it fixed the traffic wear patterns in our bedroom carpet. I was going to file a complaint about the carpeting until we got the Meile. Now I know the old Orec wasn't cleaning worth a \*\*\*\*.

Scale it to your house-family and garage-shop sizes. My small-ish wet-dry shop vac with flexible hoses and Oreck XL portable vacuum are perfect for my 1000sf house+garage-shop. Supported with good brooms and dustpans of course. Shop vacs can be LOUD; they handle wet messes and bigger chunks. Interior vacs are quieter. My vote is if only one, then start with a NEW mid-size shop vac, then get an interior vac. I usually thrift, but sweeping statement: people tend to abuse shop vacs, ymmv; on interior vacs, good used can be found because people either upgrade way too often or dump them when the bag gets full (weird but true!). Congrats on new house.

Get an industrial vacuum that uses a bag. We have an Oreck XL.

Check out the Oreck XL, better filtration and still in your budget. Bagless machines all leak dust and require more maintenance than bagged models.

We checked some of the hotels that we stayed at and ask housekeeping what vacuum they were given. Based on that, we got the Oreck XL Commercial. We figured that they went through a lot of vacuums and probably got ones that were reliable. It was not expensive. It looks very utilitarian but isn’t heavy. It uses replaceable filter bags instead of weird containers requiring manual cleaning. It’s worked well for us for at least 10 years with no problems.

Oreck XL Commercial. Doesn't have attachments if you require, but it handles a German Shepherd shedding like a mofo. Suction is incredible and it has lasted a bunch of years. Very, very light. While not truly a stick.

Like someone else mentioned, vacuums like Oreck XL or Riccar Supralites are pretty much the best at fluffing up the pile and leaving vacuum lines like that. The reason (I've always assumed, anyway) is because since they're lightweight and have smaller motors, they rely more on the brush agitating the carpet rather than just having boat loads of suction. The result is they actually do a pretty killer job at erasing pet hair and they make those nice carpet lines. These days I would opt for the Riccar Supralite model R10E or R10S(if you can swing it) over the Oreck. It's going to be a lot more serviceable. The Riccar will also run circles around an Oreck if the carpet isn't super low pile. Barely anyone deals with Oreck anymore but Riccar is pretty ubiquitous at vacuum stores.

I’m curious to see where this post goes. I’ve got a sensor S12 in one house and an old oreck XL in the other. The Oreck is loud as hell, but I guess that’s normal for a direct air machine.