This machine saved my wood floors and my back!

I have sealed hardwood floors. I routinely clean them with a vinegar and water solution and a microfiber mop. They were looking a little dull, so I applied a polish. It looked great at first. However as I moved from one room to another, I saw some hazing. Probably should have changed the pad on my mop. But I didn’t and was left with an awful streaky mess. I tried scrubbing the polish off and quickly found that to be useless. I researched floor cleaning machines and came across this Oreck model. It was $125 less than the identical unit in my local Oreck store. I bought it. The machine arrived today. I had picked up a bottle of the Oreck wood floor cleaner and the white polishing pad from my local store yesterday, so I was ready to use the machine once it arrived. Three hours later, my floors look amazing! I went over the floors twice and turned the polishing pad over when it got dirty. The machine removed the old polish and buffed my floors to a nice shine. I am very pleased. With different available attachments, this machine will clean my tile floors, carpet and can even be used on smooth concrete in the garage. What a great find! I highly recommend it.

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I am seriously impressed withe my Oreck Orbiter

In college I used to run a 21″ floor buffer, you know….the one that will knock over a vending machine if you lose control. Well, I wanted something to take care of my grout on my tile floors. Just under 2000 square feet. I considered buying a full size floor machine like I used to run but I feel like I am a bit old to be maneuvering a 100 pound machine anymore.After loads of research I order the Oreck Orbiter. It arrived quickly and I was impressed the first time I turned it on. Enough weight to be able to scrub and very easy to control.I ended up moving every piece of furniture I own, then sprayed my solution, ran the Oreck with their blue brush, used a shop vac to suck everything up and then used a mop to spread plenty of rinse water which was vacuumed as well. Grout looks like it did 25 years ago and the tile feels smooth as glass when I am barefoot!

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Just buy it!

This floor scrubber is amazing! I used Zep Grout Cleaner and Brightener (yellow bottle) from the orange big box home store. Squirt the cleaner liberally on your grout lines. It immediately starts foaming, let it sit there and work for five minutes or so. I used the Orange brush on the scrubber and just guide it along. The scrubber does the work, no need to bear down or fight it as it is heavy enough to do the job. Be prepared to wipe your baseboards afterwards as the scrubber will fling dirty solution onto them.After scrubbing immediately follow up with a wet Swiffer. I then laid down a dry terry cloth rag (old towels cut to size) and placed the scrubber on top of the rag. Turn the scrubber on and the brush grabs the rag and dries the floor as it spins the rag. Change the rag as needed for a clean one. No more getting on your hands and knees to dry the floor!Stand back afterwards and have a Holy Cow moment : )

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Great for the most part

I really like this machine. My tile floors were last cleaned professionally about 5 years ago. Last time I did them hard I was on my hands and knees for days. Have kept them up somewhat with a SwifferJet and pads. Needless to say that is not sufficient. I ordered this machine with the brush and pad kit. What a breeze to clean the floors now. It just glides around with ease. Since it is heavy no pushing is needed. I do hold the spray bottle for stubborn spots and it just eats them off. I have to follow up with three mopings with a wet towel wrapped around the SwifferJet to get the dirt and solution off but that is no problem. My only disappointment is that it doesn’t really clean out my off-white grout as I expected and reported by others, it does clean it somewhat but I am still not satisfied. I am trying some different solutions now to see if something else will do better. I have little doubt I will find the right combination for the grout using this machine. Regardless of the grout, as it is improved, I am very pleased with this machine and do not regret my purchase. It has made tile cleaning so easy and effortless.Delivery was fast and arrived as scheduled and without damage.

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Getting ready.

I like the price and the fact is affordable. I’m gathering things to refinish my oak floors, in the spring. Price, warranty, and quality, are a great deal.

OMG…the best floor cleaner ever!!!!

5 STARS!!!! I can’t say enough good things about this floor cleaner. Super easy to use, cleans the tile and grout without breaking your back. You will be shocked by how clean your floors are. We also bought the blue brush head and the white mop head and our floors look like new. I can’t recommend this enough.

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This machine is Awesome!

The pictures above are before and after of our farm kitchen floor! It’s simply amazing! We are super excited and proud to have this machine and can’t wait to do the carpet in our bedroom! 5 stars!

Great product

I had rented one of these before purchasing and was very satisfied with the results and decided to buy one to have around for full time use. Highly recommended for cleaning tile (which is 80% of my home) and avoid the back breaking need to be on hands and knees. You do need to get a few things to get this to work properly such as the right brushes and something to lightly spray a cleaning agent on the surface ahead of time – definitely you will spend a few more bucks after you buy the base unit. There are other machines out there around this price but the size of this one makes it a breeze to get into smaller rooms and tighter spaces.In my case I did have a big snag with a happy ending though. 1st time I plugged it in it worked about 20 minutes then started smoking a thick white smoke and the built in breaker popped on it. I contacted Oreck and my only option was to take it into a service store since it was not bought direct from Oreck. The good thing here is that Amazon is a reseller for Oreck so the warranty on the item purchased through Amazon was honored at the store and they fixed the problem. Seems I was unlucky enough to get a unit with a faulty motor. The whole thing was swapped out and it works great now. From comments by the store employees this seems to be an extremely rare occurrence (who knows?). It did put a bit of a damper on my cleaning though as I had about a 2 week window before I had a functional unit again. I would have preferred them taking the unit back and giving me a new one but the motor is really the bulk of this thing so it was essentially like getting a new unit except for the handle.

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My Tile Floor Looks New Again and Amazon’s Price is Much Lower Than the Oreck Retailer …

I loved the light gray, textured tile in my kitchen until it refused to release the dirt that was ground in over the year. Scrubbing with a commercial steamer or with a scrub brush did little to bring it back to looking new. After researching floor scrubbers, I decided to purchase a “Oreck Orbiter Ultra Multi Purpose Floor Machine”. However, the price at our local Oreck store was not to my liking; Oreck confirmed that Amazon LLC is an authorized seller and if I purchased from Amazon, the warranty would be valid.I watched the price on Amazon which fluctuates, from close to full retail to as low as $280 during the Christmas season, and eventually purchased the “Oreck Orbiter Ultra Multi Purpose Floor Machine”. My cost was about $150 lower than it would have been at the Oreck store. It arrived and I used it immediately – what a surprise to see the floor color and matching grout restored to their original light gray.The “Oreck Orbiter Ultra Multi Purpose Floor Machine” is easy to maneuver. I am a petite individual and had no problems using the scrubber; it glides effortlessly and requires only that the operator guide it. The long cord makes it possible to clean an entire room without having to plug and unplug the cord as you move.The one downside for some may be that you need to dry the floor as you scrub, but that is not difficult if you use your cleaning solution in a spray bottle. However, that is not enough to cause me to downgrade this scrubber.

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If you have tile floor this is A must have

It has been almost 2 years since I bought this machine & finally reviewing it, I am not a pro tile installer so I couldn’t keep the grout from top of the tile during installation & I didn’t know any better way to clean it off so I decided to try this little machine, the flat pads are used to clean the top mess I made with 100% success, I thought I was done with it & stored it for months but when time came to clean a 2700 square feet whole house tile cleaning again I picked it up, this time since all I need to clean was just the grout between tiles I used the brush attachment to scrub it then used my old carpet cleaner to lift the gunk, I recommend not just to home owners but also to tile installers who want to see their job look clean and nice. My only fear was that it goes out of control and damage my wall like the commercial one did to me in past, fortunately this machine can be operated even by kids without any resistance or causing a damage to baseboard or the wall, it’s very smooth even on the rough garage concrete.If the company that makes this machine is reading this comment, one improvement they should make is adding water sanction option where either it comes with its own wetvac or allow attaching existing wetvac.

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