I received this right before the Christmas cleaning frenzie. I told my 18 yr old daughter to unpack it and get to work....which she did quickly. The next thing I knew she was declaring her love for this vacuum! She said it was awesome as she zoomed through the house vacuuming areas I hadn't even asked her to do! She changed attachments and started going up the sides of the piano to clean off some dust! It was crazy! She even put the intake hose up to her sister's pant leg to show her how powerful the suction was! ha ha ha  So, this gets at least a 4 star rating right off the bat. Once I use it some more it may even go up to a five star! Big thumbs up!