How often should I change my Oreck bags?
I would change your Oreck vacuum cleaner bag on the Oreck upright when it gets to be about three quarters full or the vacuum cleaner starts to feel too heavy when you are pushing it. If you are using the Oreck Housekeeper / BusterBee portable canister vacuum, I would change the bag when it appears to be half to three quarters full. Overfilling an Oreck portable canister vacuum bag will strain the motor and hamper the performance of the canister vacuum because a full vacuum bag will reduce the amount of suction that is being created in the vacuum chamber. If you vacuum up anything that is very dense like sheet rock dust I would replace the vacuum bag right away. If you overfill an upright Oreck vacuum bag, the debris will back up into the back tube and clog up the vacuum cleaner.
