The bissell 13127 is a powerful but compact cordless vacuum cleaner when it comes to picking up dirt along the edges of a room and round furniture edge reach technology diverts the suction to the side of the vacuum cleaner to aid pulling the dirt and debris off the floor and carpet 18v of cleaning power mean that the bissell will clean deep down into the carpet fibres the handle has been specifically designed to fold both forwards and backwards to aid reaching under furniture and also to fol