this was my experience. I got it when my wife had surgery and for my use case. needing to get multiple things done at once. It did work but in a normal situation its honestly more bother than its worth. Now that was before you could get a model with a base station that would clean it out. I could see having one if it did not use a brush and was just a wet/dry vac type thing and the base station cleared it out. It would not do as good a job but what it did do would be useful given the hands off nature at that point.