SEBO ESSENTIAL G4 Bagged Upright Vacuum, Light Gray and Dark Gray

Households that want a plain, well-built German upright with no screen and no gimmicks tend to land on the ESSENTIAL G4. Dirt goes into a bag instead of a bin, so what the machine picks up stays shut away until you slide the full bag out and drop it in the trash. This one wears the two-tone light gray and dark gray finish, which is the quieter of the two colourways the G4 is built in.

Two packages of bags ride along free with the G4. They are 5093AM, boxed in eights with the snap caps, so your first sixteen are covered before a reorder comes up at all. On an upright a household runs weekly, that comfortably exceeds a year of collection settled at the door.

• Free with this machine: two boxes of SEBO 5093AM filter bags, eight per box, caps included

Bagged collection is the reason people keep buying machines like this after living with a bagless one. Fine dust is the part that matters: in a bag it stays where it landed, while a bin has to be tipped out over a trash can and gives a good share of it back to the room on the way. In a house where somebody reacts to dust, that single difference decides the purchase.

Running costs are worth knowing before you buy rather than after. Bags for the G4 are listed as 5093AM in a box of eight, with 5093A3 and 5093A4 as larger cartons for anyone who would rather order once a year. The microfilter is 5036AM, with 5425AM as the anti-odor version and 5812ER as the HEPA microfilter, and 2846 is the exhaust filter for the G series. When the bristles eventually comb flat, the brush roller listed for this machine is the 12-inch 5010AM, or 5010GE in soft bristle, and 8366WS is the tool for stripping wound-on hair off it. Every one of those is a part you can buy on its own, which is what keeps a machine like this in service instead of in a landfill.

Order code 90406AM identifies the gray G4 specifically; the black version carries its own number, and the second machine in the ESSENTIAL G pair is listed separately for anyone comparing the two. Because the machine comes from an authorized SEBO dealer, we extend the factory coverage free of charge to 10 years on the motor, 10 years on parts and 7 years of labor.

• Model: SEBO ESSENTIAL G4
• Format: bagged upright vacuum
• Finish: light gray with dark gray
• Part number: 90406AM
• Bags: 5093AM box of eight, 5093A3 and 5093A4 cartons
• Filters: 5036AM microfilter, 5425AM anti-odor, 5812ER HEPA microfilter, 2846 exhaust filter
• Brush roller: 5010AM 12-inch, 5010GE soft bristle
• Warranty: 10 years motor, 10 years parts, 7 years labor — extended free of charge

Sold new by an authorized SEBO dealer. Ships in 2–5 business days.