With small children and two cats, I always miss the tools to keep my house clean. This is a nice addition to my vacuum cleaner collection. It's a little on the heavy side, but overall it doesn't weigh as much as some other brands, and it comes with a range of versatile accessories. It easily picks up dirt and cat hair, and I find its various attachments very useful, with which you can not only clean carpet and parquet, but also cracks. The motor is not very noisy for the power it develops in high suction mode. The user manual is beautifully written and describes in detail all functions and possibilities.