I owned a Kenmore canister vac for years and got along quite well with it.  Being elderly and not in best of health, I valued the ease of using it.  It was destroyed, no fault of it's own, and I was very glad to find this one.   They aren't difficult to get in the right place to use, and I can take it from one end of my house to the other without much effort at all.  I would recommend this vacuum for anyone and any job.