This vacuum is nice as it does have the lift off feature which is nice to do the steps in our house. The downfall that I find with this is that the canister fills up very quickly as opposed to other vacuums. Additionally I feel like that pile height is backwards on it as I had to switch to high pile on my no pile carpet. Maybe that is just a fluke on the one that i received. I would definitely recommend this product to my friends & family.