The power button is seen here in orange; conveniently located on the side and able to be activated with your foot..

Remove the grey wand handle, plug the flex in….Behind where the wand sits is a vertical channel that the cable can be clipped into….

Then locate it around these two hooks like so….Then observe where it says.That is the lock for the cable loop, it stops the flex being damaged by pulling.

Push that button and insert the looped cable in the aperture like so….This design is so that the cable when pulled isn’t flexing at one given point – which as we have found out, makes the flex liable to break internally.

Rather, it spreads the load across several inches of flex and makes it less inclined to fail prematurely.. Now you can use your Sebo Evolution as the nice people in Germany intended..

If you need a new Sebo Evolution power cord, here’s where to get one from:.It has no long extending hose beyond the standard one, and it has no tools other than the stair tool and the crevice tool that live in the apertures in the back of the machine.

You can add those on during purchase if you need them though.. What it does have however is the hard wearing anti-scratch surface that’s your X1 has.The more modern X4 and X7 domestic machines tend to have a high gloss finish which is very nice until it becomes scratched with use.

The hard wearing and durable commercial finish on the XP10, which is very similar to the finish on your X1, is well known to stand the test of time..The XP10 takes the same bags and internal pre-motor tower filter as your X1 and indeed the filters and many other aspects of the machine will look familiar to you.