Bare floors. Bare floors with a couple of area rugs. Bare floors, rugs, and wall-to-wall carpet upstairs. It doesn't matter which one you are — every machine here has a powered brush that gets down into carpet and a real answer for hard floors, whether that's a brushroll you can shut off or a second floorhead built for smooth surfaces. Nothing to work around, nothing you can't clean.

It's also why they're worth buying before your floors change. Refinish a room, pull up the carpet, put down a rug, move somewhere new — a vacuum built for one surface stops being the right vacuum. These don't.