Oreck Commercial Orbiter Hard Floor Cleaner Machine, Multi-Purpose Floor Cleaning, Random Orbital Drive, Wide Cleaning Path, 50-Foot Long Cord, ORB550MC, Gray/Red

For those of you who just want a quick read for basic info, I will start with the breakdown, but if you want to know all about my experience with this floor cleaner please read on. BREAKDOWN: Excellent floor cleaner - definitely worth the time and expense! Easy to operate Use the Blue brush for deep grout - it works easiest and best Large spaces with deep grout may need to use more than one brush to finish the job (order extra) Only one issue - if you are puny and have small hands removing the brush is very difficult - you will need help I have the most beautiful and horrible Travertine floors and was looking for something to help clean the canyons of grout filled with dirt. If you are thinking about getting floors like mine, DON'T! They are the worst to keep clean with their rustic looking huge grout channels. But thanks to this Oreck floor cleaner, months of debris nearly floated away! (check out the pictures of my floor, cleaned areas versus the dirty bits - which I added) The Oreck Commercial Orbiter Floor Machine worked wonders on the massive crevices in my flooring. If you have floors with deep, wide grout spaces and never seem to get the dirt up no matter how much you mop, then this floor cleaner is what you need. I ordered the orange brush thinking I needed something rugged and heavy duty but the blue brush was actually the best, as it was softer and able to get deep in the cracks. When I first used the orange brush I felt the need to twist the Orbiter to get the brush into the cracks because it was so stiff, it was basically passing over them. Just so you know, bending the machine to get in the cracks actually makes it harder on your arms and wrists, and beats the crap out of the brush. So about half a floor later (several hours), I had to switch the orange brush out because it became matted and compressed and no longer worked well (picture included of the abused orange brush). I then used the blue brush and immediately noticed a huge difference! It was softer so it got in the cracks easily and I no longer had to twist the machine to get the same results. Of course I ended up having to switch out the blue brush to another blue brush because I could tell when it was getting worn and not working as well. I seriously did almost 5,000 square feet of flooring and used 3 brushes, so I guess that's not too bad. It would have been great to only used one, but I wasn't complaining since my floor was looking amazing. It took many, many hours and a few days to get it all done, but it looks like new and I am now forcing everyone to comply to my no shoes in the house policy to help maintain the floors cleanliness, so that I, hopefully, won't have to do this again for another 6-8 months or longer. The only downside of this machine is that I find it too difficult to get the brushes off to replace them after using them for the day and need the assistance of someone much stronger with larger hands than mine. Too bad they don't have a tool to help get the brush off, for people with small hands that are on the puny side. Overall, totally worth the money and time spent making my floors new again!!

Machine does an excellent job. Is simple to use. We were worried it would spin and require a lot of strength to control. Not true! When it is on it almost stay still and with almost finger touch control it will glide from left to right. Scrubs very thoroughly. But please realize 13" it absolutely NOT a large surface area. That came as a big disappointment when I open then box. But they list it as such so that is my issue, and I cant knock down their review for that. But compared to the jumbo commercial machine it is way small. Critiques and things you need to consider when you use it: You need to apply some sort of cleanser to the floor in advance of scrubbing. A mop, a sprayer, whatever. We user a Chapin 20000 1-Gallon Lawn and Garden Sprayer because we saw the commercial floor guy do that at our business, and it was awesome. Just applied a very light coat, esp along the edges. Then scrubbed. We did small sections at a time. We hand scrubbed the corners and edges with a Libman No Knees Floor Scrub brush where we knew the round machine could not reach or do as good of a job. We used Armstrong 330806 Armstrong Once 'N Done Cleaner Concentrate which was excellent and smells very clean - kind of like what Fantastik used to smell like before they changed it with a bit of bleach added. It will loosen up the dirt on your floor. You then need to clean that junk off your floor. We follow it with 3 different mop buckets. First for the super dirty stuff it lifts off. Then the kind of yucky residue left behind. Then finished with a perfect clean water mop and a hint of cleaner just for the scent. Floors look gorgeous. I suppose you could also use a wet vacuum to soak use the filth. One other note. The machine spins so the edges where the walls meet the floor do get a fair amount of dirt accumulated there and need special attention to the cleaning / mopping at the end or they will stay gross.

I have a small custodial company and some of the floors I clean are in awkward places where my big autoscrubber can’t get to (like down six stairs or such). This is perfect for places like that and also for home. I am also amazed at how light and quiet it is; my normal floor machines whir like dervishes and nearly rip your shoulders out of your sockets if you don’t know what you’re doing but this is nice and easy. Bonus points for being able to lift it into a van or truck without help. Minus 1/8 star because the cord wrap is not very good and the plug keeps popping off the cord when it’s wrapped around the arms but really nbd.

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I have about 3000 sq. ft. of limestone/travertine tiled floor in my home! And we've been rescuing Great Danes for years! Over time, the high traffic areas have become dull and dirty! So . . . I bought cleaner for our specific type of tile. I bought a small pump sprayer (where I mix the solution with water). I use the pump sprayer to spray a somewhat small area that I'm going to over with the Oreck, repeat and move further and further along until the whole area is done. And . . . . . well, it works! It may not bring your tile back to brand new (especially if you have porous tile like limestone or travertine), but it does a pretty good job! My tile looks a helluva lot better than it did before. The unit is not cheap, but that said this is a commercial-grade unit. Be sure to buy the right brush ring attachment to do your specific kind of tile. If you can't find the info here on Amazon, Google Oreck's website and they will have the different kind of brushes you can get and which works best for which type of flooring material.

Se ve fuerte y bien hecho.

Es muy ligera, no vibra como otras maquinas, y es muy potente, quizas para un trabajo rudo de pisos muy acabados o espacios muy amplios es mejor una mas grande pero para una casa o departamento es perfecta. La use en piso de marmol, y los cojinetes o almohadillas se pueden encargar facilmente tambien por amazon.