I bought this cordless vacuum about a year ago, knowing that it would be inferior to any upright model. So I was prepared to make allowances for its inability to raise the pile on my carpet - or for the fact that, invariably, when I've finished using it, I'm just extremely unsatisfied with the result.

That said, there are other factors about the machine that warrant my poor rating.

Chief among them: it gets clogged with pet hair and cat litter every time I use it. I have not, as far as I can recall, been able to clean all the carpets in my house without having to remove the debris that hasn't been successfully loaded into the canister.

And to make it worse, once the machine is assembled, you need to be Hercules to detach any of the parts. This is why I so rarely use it to vacuum my stairs - I'd rather take a dustpan and brush to them than struggle with the ordeal of converting it to a handheld cleaner.

So, when the machine gets clogged, I'm forced to disassemble it to access the blockage - meaning that I have to put up with both the clogs and the misery of trying to take it apart!

I gave this wretched thing a very long benefit of the doubt. Now, however, I'm so fed up with it that I felt it necessary to warn anyone who reads this review that they're likely to experience the same problems with it or any other Honiture vacuum that's structured similarly.