This thing works great on hardwood tile floors and thin carpets, plus it's very light so you won't break your back vacuuming. definitely not built to withstand abuse, it's very light, in fact some of it might be a scam, but at $80 compared to the Dyson Cyclone V10 Animal POS (which I returned thanks to Costco) which cost five times as much and one Part of Little Hercules had outperformed Dyson in every way, except that Little Hercules has a chord. I know these are two different types of vacuums, so I'm not comparing apples to apples. I was looking for a powerful, lightweight, all-purpose vacuum and it definitely takes all those boxes and is cheap as it all comes out. I even ordered a second one as a backup because if and when this thing fails I don't want the headache of finding something comparable.