At first, I really liked this stick vacuum. It had great suction and got into hard to reach places. But, after maybe 4 months of normal use, the battery started failing. Every time I used it, it ran for shorter periods of time. After a few weeks of this annoying dance of charge-use-charge-use-, the thing will now only run for seconds at a time. I'm afraid to buy a replacrment battery. It's about half the price of the vacuum itself, and I don't trust that it will even work. Now I'm left feeling like I threw my money down the rat hole by purchasing this vacuum in the first place. I'm really sour on Eureka as a brand now. Can't recommend!