We junked the Dyson we had as its weight was a pain up and down a narrow staircase. Got a Bosch Athlet. Nicely balanced and my wife liked it, but it, and the next one, suffered from a common fault where the connector between the 2 parts of the handle fails. Plus it was nigh on impossible for me, let alone my wife, to get the brush head off to use attachments. We now have a VAX cordless. Not as well balanced (too heavy) and a small dust container, but effective, and dead easy to swap bits about, making for a good handheld for the car. I still get to tote it up and down the stairs (my wife at 79 doesn’t feel confident doing so, what with the stairs being 45 degrees with a 90 degree turn over 4 steps at the bottom) but that’s ok. And we have a Miele with a bag for spring cleaning and a Henry for soot and ash.