This vacuum is awesome. I never realized how much dirt we were collecting in our carpet until I used this vacuum. The only draw back is that the first few times I used the vacuum in high traffic areas the vacuum got clogged because of all of the built up dirt our old vacuum was not picking up. This made the first few vacuuming sessions rather slow and time consuming but now I few confident that the carpets are truly clean. I wish I had purchased this vacuum instead of the Bissell I got before this purchase.