SEBO MicroCare Brush Roller for the BALANCE A1

SEBO stocks two rollers for the BALANCE A1 and draws them one after the other. Position 16 is the MicroCare roller, sold under part number 8816AM; position 17 is its MultiCare counterpart. Keeping both to hand is the point of a machine built around a removable roller — the swap takes seconds and needs no tools.

The roller drops into the power brush 95030AM at position 15 of the same sheet and turns against the right-hand bearing block 8802AM at position 7. Everything it dislodges then travels up the suction tube 8831AM and through the cyclone unit 8820AM before the motor protection filters 8850AM see it, so a roller that has stopped agitating quietly starves the whole chain behind it.

Replace the MicroCare roller once the rows have shortened, splayed or softened, and cut away any hair wound at the ends before it works down into the bearing seats. Because the two A1 rollers are so alike in the hand, order this one as 8816AM rather than by sight; the MultiCare version is 8815AM.

Wear on a roller is easy to talk yourself out of, since a worn one still turns and still sounds right. The honest test is a second pass: run the machine twice over the same stretch of carpet and see whether the container fills again. If it does, the floor was holding grit the first pass could not reach, and a fresh MicroCare roller is what restores that reach.

• Fitment: SEBO BALANCE A1 cordless vacuum
• SEBO part number: 8816AM
• Roller type: MicroCare
• Drawn at: position 16, BALANCE A1 parts diagram
• Mounts to: power brush 95030AM (position 15), against bearing block 8802AM (position 7)
• Companion roller: MultiCare 8815AM, position 17
• Replace when: bristle rows no longer stand proud and firm
• Genuine SEBO roller, ships in 2–5 business days