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Generally impressive, but…
30/12/2022 23:49
Darcy (as she dances round the room), took at least 3 tries to map our floors properly but once used to the layout hoovered very well -better than our old hoover! The mopping is good but best done regularly, we have two cats so it mops the kitchen floor every other day which gets rid of the odd muddy paw prints and occasionally tea spills.
She handles thresholds well, recognises our carpet and doormat and registered these on the map, even got a reminder to add the Christmas tree as a temporary obstacle which was nice, I set it as a no-go zone.
It made our old rug look fabulous and i must say my floor have never been so clean so I do love it -I have a smart home system so I would like to integrate this with hubitat, it would be nice to have the feature to optimise charge to only at night during set hours to take advantage of cheap electricity pricing. Having said that our house is only 68m^2 overall so it easily does one sweep of the floor before needing a bin emptying and it has never run out of battery. I can use Siri to ask it to clean a specific room if I like which is handy.
We have had a couple of hiccups, a few times it has started going round in circle and seems suck/lost in the middle of a room,
Once it woke us up at 5am (:(!) to start hoovering without instruction
Lastly i found despite following the maintance schedule suggested hair tends to wrap around the long rubber rollers, and has managed to damage one already in under a month which I don’t consider acceptable for fair use in a small house…it should not do this. I have contacted iRobot regarding these issues, however they initially said they checked it and it has another error registered to do with obstacles in its path and to reboot, which is not the issue(s) I have described so I shall wait to see what further responses I get.
Also to note the ‘alternative’ cleaning fluid they approve of is only available in America and has no supply in the UK, again I don’t think this is acceptable considering their own fluid is around £20 plus £6.50 shipping no matter if its bought direct or not. I really struggled i must say to get through to support, the contact pages do not seem to work on all browsers/devices.
Overall I love the function of the roomba combo but feel it still has a couple of potentially significant issues for longer term use, considering how long this has been developed for now I would have expected better preparation such as replacement mops to be available elsewhere.
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Loughborough , Spojené království
Age: 35
Gender: Female