Kenmore Intuition Bagged Upright Vacuum Lift-Up Carpet Cleaner 2-Motor Power Suction with HEPA Filter, 3-in-1 Combination Tool, HandiMate for Floor, Pet Hair, 14pounds, Green

The media could not be loaded. I'll be comparing my Kenmore Intuition to my previous Oreck Magnesium and Oreck XL.Essentially, the Intuition leaves my 'Orecks' in the dust. The machine is much more functional, better engineered, quieter (despite no vac ever being truly quiet), reliable, higher quality plastics, stronger suction, cleans significantly better, can take knocks, easy bag change, easy to keep the roller clear (I have dogs) and much more. Kenmore have hit it out of the park with this vacuum and I can see why it's always in the top 10 of any vacuum review.Cleaning - Super strong suction, it gets everything; dirt, Great Pyrenees dog hairs, crumbs, sand etc.. It fluffs the carpets, none of my Orecks ever came close to this level of performance.Tile/Hardwood floor cleaning - It's excellent. The Intuition rolls and pivots smoothly. Hard surfaces are cleaned and the roller doesn't spray things all over the place. I can vacuum broken glass, dried dirt, crumbs etc. with confidence. Unlike my Orecks that sprayed a good chunk of what I tried to pick-up.Carpet cleaning - Regular carpet cleaning is a dream. The Intuition rolls and pivots smoothly, it grabs just about everything in one pass, and fluffs the carpet. This is in contrast to my Orecks where they require multiple passes and still don't match the Kenmore's performance.Deep pile carpet cleaning - Universally, vacuums don't like deep pile. The Intuition can clean deep pile but it feels like it's working harder. It still does the best job of any vacuum I've used to date.Pet hair attachment - To my complete surprise it actually works really well. My 122lb fur-ball has a large navy blue dog bed, that's used by both him and my 34lb Spitz mix. and the attachment gets all the fur without any fuss. It takes about 2 mins to clean the bed. The attachment brush is a passive system that's powered by the draw of air, and it's the only one of its kind that I've come across that not only works but does an excellent job. Fur inevitably accumulated and to clean it for the first time a few months ago. This was easy. The attachment came apart with ease, cleaning from start (figuring out how it comes apart) to finish (this includes figuring out how to put it back together) took about 10mins. What struck me was the quality of the components and how well everything went back together.Weight - It's 14lbs (with everything). That's 5lbs heavier than either of my Orecks but still light enough to be easily carried up and down stairs.Led Lights - They're bright and actually work to illuminate your path (unlike any of my Orecks). This is especially useful when clean in dark areas like underneath the bed where you will see that shoe lace before it jams your the vac. Additionally, the lights make it easier to see items that would normally be missed like see pet hair clumps or dust bunnies in nooks. Another feature I like about the Led lights is the cast light over the transparent panel above the roller, so you can see how stringy or hairy the roller is getting.Jams - Roller jams are inevitable and this has been the easiest vacuum to unjam. The Intuition detects them within 1 sec and powers down the roller (the roller is powered by its own dedicated motor). The latter ensures jams don't become nightmares, prevents damage to cables/stringy things and there's no burning rubber smell as the vacuum detects the latter before any of that can take place. This is in contrast to my Orecks, they would stink up the room with burnt rubber before detecting a jam (that's if they detected it) and would inevitably stretch and shorten the life of the rubber belt.Bag - The bag is a medium sized bag, some people call it 'small' so let's say it's at the smaller end of medium. Additionally, you can get Hepa bags as well as one’s without any filtration to suit your budget. I opt for the Hepa bags as they keep smells/dust in check. The Intuition has 5 (4 green and 1 red)bag capacity lights that start to illuminate when the bag is about 85% full. When the red light is illuminated, the bag is genuinely full, you're not going to get much more in there....I like this feature because it's accurate. What's interesting is my Orecks had almost double the capacity of the Intuition, so you would expect Oreck bags to last almost twice as long....nope. My intuition bags need to be replaced every 4-5 months. In contrast my Oreck bags would last for 1.5yrs-2yrs. That gives you an idea of how much more the Intuition picks-up, in my case it's proven to be over twice as much.Wand - The Intuition's wand is topnotch. It's a sturdy device with a user friendly handle that detaches with ease and goes back securely, no whistling/wheezing/air leaks. The suction is strong and can be adjusted by a vent open/close on the side of the handle. The hose doesn't flop, twist or get caught around itself and seems to be the ideal length for high ceilings or low areas (like behind/beneath the sofa or hard to reach areas). I've seen some people say their hoses have cracked and replacements aren't available (not good) so they've resorted to duct tape etc. (but they still love their vacs, lol). I've had my Intuition for over two years and the hose is in perf condition.Roller - The roller performance is excellent, it beat both my Orecks by a long shot. Cleaning the roller is also so much easier than any of my Orecks.Pet hair - If you have a fluffy dog (I have two), pet Pet hair build up is inevitable. I'm not sure how Kenmore engineered/pulled-off the following but, despite picking up significantly more hair than my Orecks, pet hair doesn't accumulate as quickly on the Kenmore roller as it did on my Orecks. On the Orecks I would have to clean the roller around every 6-7 months and it was such a fiddly and messy chore. In the 2+ years I've had the Intuition, I've only had to clean the roller twice. Additionally, on the Intuition, it's not the nightmare job, as it was on the Orecks (frankly, it's still something I'd sooner avoid). The Institution leaves a small gap between the wrapped pet hair/stringy things and the roller, the gap is small enough to finagle scissors and cut through the mess. Usually, hair and stringy items are wrapped super tight around the roller, not the case with the Intuition. I have a Great Pyrenee and any Pyr parent will attest to how they destroy vac's, I don't expect this to be the case with Intuition.Detachable body - The body and wand can be detached from the base as a single unit. It comes off with ease and reattaches without squeaks or wiggles so the vacuum always feels like a solid and single unit. I've found this feature to be super convenient and for cleaning stairs, hard to reach places, ceiling corners etc..Cable - This is a universal Achilles heel of every vacuum cleaner out there, because you can't help but run it over. To start the Intuition has a 30ft cable. perf. Additionally, I've run over the cable on tiled and carpeted floors, and it's never been a problem, the vacuum doesn't pick it up. The only time it's been a problem is when I've run over the cable on a deep pile rug. It grabbed everything, but luckily it wasn't an issue as the vac was quick enough to stop the roller, and I was on my way in the less than a 1 min.Build quality - Excellent. This is a well thought-out and designed machine. By comparison I was surprised at the cheapness of my Orecks components (I had to take them apart multiple times, because I wasn't about to leave my vacuum at an Oreck center for about 2 weeks).Value for money - You can't beat it. I’ve had 3 Orecks whick totaled around $1.5k and all of them have been outperformed by a $169 Kenmore Intuition. The intuition looks great, it's reliable, well built, functional and performs way better than its price point.

For years, our household has been using cheaper bagless vacs that have had issues for as long as I can remember. And when last year, our last one broke, enough was enough and I finally decided to look into getting a decent bagged vacuum, as I heard that they were generally better options, especially so I no longer had to deal with emptying the dust canister after every use.I've only had this for a few months now, but I can easily say this is, by far, the best upright vac I've ever had the pleasure of using. It just feels so much more quality than any others that I've used before and I think it'll likely last a lot longer as well, and there's just a ton that I like about it.For one, I'm absolutely converted to bagged vacs now, I totally see why they're considered better. No longer having to deal with filters I need to clean frequently, all of it just dumping straight into the bag from the hose. I was also surprised just how much the bag could fill before needing to replace. I didn't have to dump the one that came in the vac until just last week, and that's after almost three months of regular use! The suction also seems a lot stronger compared the bagless vacs that I had been used to using, making cleaning so much faster and easier. Now we mainly have hard floors in our house, but we do have a couple rugs and it seems to work great on it, the brushroll doing a great job was cleaning them.It also felt just generally nice to use. This is the first vacuum that I had used that had swivel steering and it made such a difference for getting around things and making cleaning feel a lot more effortless. The lift-away canister is also super handy to use when in wand mode, making it really nice to dust and get into hard-to-reach areas, especially on the nice long wand that it has. The mini-brushroll attachment is also great for getting dog hair from our furniture. The cord length was also nice, not having to really worry about running out of cord and needing to plug it in somewhere closer, made taking care of a whole-house clean a lot less annoying.Honestly I'm just incredibly happy with this vac so far, especially for the price. The extra bags that it comes just feels like the cherry on top. Definitely an incredibly strong recommendation for anyone looking for a solid main vacuum.

Almost had it a year now great vacuum just wish it did not have so many things to clean or replace (1 Bag to replace when full and 2 filters to clean that eventually will need to be totally replaced when they cannot be cleaned anymore). This vacuum cleans much better than my old vacuum and does not let dust and dirt pumped back into the House and do not have that just vacuumed odor the air that comes out is clean and without odor. That being said I have never spent this much on a vacuum guess you get what you pay for certain products does not pay to go cheap. I have a small house and just changed my first bag and I would suggest changing the bag when the 3rd indicator light comes on because mine did that today and I checked it the bag was stuffed full except for right by the bag where it attaches to the vacuum, it would serve you well to at least check and monitor at this point.