I recommend for preventive cleaning of 1-2 room apartments. It collects garbage, crumbs and even hair well, but you should not count on some miracles for cleaning carpets with soft and / or long pile. Wrapping the vacuum cleaner filter with a viscose cloth and then removing it along with the collected garbage is good advice, the filter will remain almost clean, you may only have to blow it out if you collected very fine, for example, construction debris. I recommend to buy.