Needed a reasonable vacuum cleaner, because animals in the household, and I had now bought every three months such scrap dinger ausm hardware store, I had enough of it properly against the grain, so Amazon a little poking and then decided to go for this one, which is suction fantastic and the thing attaches itself to the floor, it is a pleasure, and the animal-like on the couch and rug belongs to the past. That is why five star .... :-)