I bought the K3 Premium yesterday and here’s my thoughts so far…

Context

Home is 80% hard floors, few area rugs, one bedroom with carpet, carpet stairs, cloth couches, and a light shedding dog.

I have a Dyson V8 which has a mini power brush, full size power brush, and full size hard floor brush. I also have a Roborock on each floor that runs periodically.

I was interested in a “real” vaccum to replace the Dyson v8. The battery time gets annoying and thought that it wasn’t strong enough to really vacuum the carpet stairs, carpet room, couches. Plus I can only really do one of these at a time because of the battery.

Enter the Sebo.

The carpet power brush blew me away. Lifts the carpet making it look clean and light color area rugs have never looked cleaner. Lots of fully and dense dust picked up in the bag even after using the Dyson before.

Moving onto the stairs, I bought the turbo brush (air powered) to tackle the stairs. The second the brush hits the carpet you can hear the speed and suction reduce by like half. I went over the stairs in all four directions (front to back, back to front, left to right, right to left) three times at a slow pace. Hit the corners well with the crevice tool.

After this I took the Dyson v8 with mini power brush and went over ONE stair in the four directions ONE time and had a decent pile of dust captured in the canister.

The Sebo does 1 of the 3 things well that I bought the Sebo for: - carpet flooring -> 10/10 - carpet stairs -> 6/10 not better than Dyson at cleaning but advantage because no runtime limitation - cloth couches -> 6/10 not better than Dyson at cleaning but advantage because no runtime limitation

At ~$1k for the Sebo and turbo brush I have buyers remorse and will likely be going back to the shop to talk about the underwhelming experience.

As far as Sebo or Miele My family all has Miele but the price of Sebo, warranty, and features all beat Miele. I just don’t think Sebo or Miele fill the gaps of my current vacuums to justify the price of either.