I love vacuuming and vacuums period. I was so ecstatic when I bought this one, being a mom I thought this would life changing especially when its time to do the stairs. After a good nights charge I first targetted the stairs in my home. I have dog, a cat and 3 growing boys, so the stairs see it all. I ran the vacuum on the 3rd mode "turbo", while the suction was great it was disgusting to see what has been left behind, I was so disappointed when the vaccum died with 2 steps to go. I thought for what I spent on this vacuum that I would get much more than a 10 minute vacuum on the average flight on stairs. I would not recommend this to a friend based upon the battery life alone.