I received this sweeper for Christmas last year. I am a 70 year old woman and I would not buy this sweeper. Even though it is light weight, I can hardly push when vacuuming my large area rug in my living room. Also even though it says the hose is 7 ft, I find I can't seem to reach anything very high up. Also it doesn't have an extension to attach to it to reach something on the floor. Because the hand hold is so close to the attachment, you have to bend way over to vacuum the floor