SEBO SOFTCASE CE12 Lightweight Corded Vacuum, White and Gray Black

Corded and light to carry, the SOFTCASE CE12 answers the one complaint that trails every cordless machine: run time. Plug it into a wall socket and it keeps working for as long as the job takes, whether that is one room or an entire floor of a house, with no gauge to watch and no interruption to recharge halfway through. The finish is white with gray black, and the part number is 94251AM.

The CE12 has a filter bag box of its own, part 75175AM, eight to a box and shared with nothing else SEBO builds — so two boxes go in with the machine at no cost rather than leaving the number to be tracked down later. Sixteen bags is a long life on a light machine kept for an upstairs floor or a small office.

• Bags supplied free: two boxes of SEBO 75175AM, the SOFTCASE filter bag box.

Low weight counts for more than a spec sheet usually admits. A vacuum you can pick up in one hand and carry up a staircase, or lift into a car without planning the trip, gets used far more often than a heavy one that stays parked where it was last left. That is the design brief behind the CE12 Softcase and the reason it makes sense as the machine for an upstairs floor, a finished basement, an apartment, a rental turnover or a small office, where hauling something larger from room to room is the actual reason cleaning gets postponed.

It is a genuine SEBO build rather than a budget side line, and SEBO lists service components for it individually instead of treating the vacuum as a sealed unit to be thrown out. We supply the SOFTCASE CE12 Lightweight as an authorized SEBO dealer, and that relationship is what allows us to extend the factory warranty ourselves at no cost to the buyer: 10 years on the motor, 10 years on parts and 7 years of labor. Orders ship in 2-5 business days.

• Model: SEBO SOFTCASE CE12 Lightweight
• Power: corded, no battery to charge or replace
• Finish: white with gray black
• Suited to: stairs, upper floors, apartments and second-machine duty
• SEBO part number: 94251AM
• Warranty: 10 years motor, 10 years parts, 7 years labor — extended free of charge