My husband and I had high hopes when he ordered this robotic vacuum cleaner for me for Christmas. My husband is confined to a wheelchair much of the time, and I have severe degenerative disk disease and spondelosis, which in laymen's terms means an extremely bad, severely painful, neck and back. This problem keeps me from being able to clean my house the way it needs, which is very hard on a frustrated Neat Freak like me. Also, we have a loving dog who lives in the house with us, and she sheds, AND sheds. To make matters worse, both my hubby and I have miserably debillitating allergies. So a good and easy way to clean the floors is a Must-Have for us.
We thought a cleaner that did all the work for us would be the next-best-thing to the maid service we can't afford. But, sadly, this little vacuum could not handle our floors! We have cement floors, with a few very thin and flat, antique Oriental rugs scattered here and there. The robot vacuum kept getting hung up on the almost microscopic distance between the rugs and the floor. Whether it was trying to go up, ON to a rug from the cement, or go down, OFF of a rug back onto the cement, 9 times out of 10, or more, it would hang, and then stall, and then STOP. Maddening.
Yes, it is loud, but that didn't matter, it probably isn't much louder than most regular vacuum cleaners. Yes, when it wasn't hung up on something, it was very slow moving across the floor, but that was alright too -- I figure that the slower a vacuum goes across the floor, the more thoroughly it is getting it clean. And besides, who cares how long it takes, if I'm not the one having to do the work?
If only this thing could have managed to actually clean the floor more than a few tiny itty bitty INCHES at a time without getting hung up and stopping, we would have been pleased as could be, despite the noise and the slowness. But, sadly, it just couldn't do the job.
MAYBE if our floors had no rugs whatsoever, OR if it were wall to wall rug, then it MIGHT have worked good enough. But I really doubt it, because when it wasn't getting hung up on the canyon between the rugs and the hard floor, it was getting hung up on furniture legs, and walls, and doors.
Somewhere I read a review where the person said she thought this vacuum needed time to "learn" about all the obstacles in a room, before it can do a good job of cleaning it up without stalling. I was hoping that was the problem, so I kept giving it chance after chance, but this Stupid Robotic Vacuum never learned a darn thing! If anything, the more I ran it, the more quickly it would get hung up and shut itself off. We bought it from a store that has a 30-day free trial period, and we used it the full 30 days, trying to figure out a way to make it work for us, but it never did work, so in the end we sent it back. iTouchless Robotic Intelligent Vacuum Cleaner PRO
I received this item last week. After fully charging it, i found out it doesnt work on carpet. My carpet is ordinary one. It works 2 seconds on carpet, but works well on hardwood floor.
If you want to use it on hard floor, it will be OK. But not on carpet at all. iTouchless Robotic Intelligent Vacuum Cleaner PRO
I had a roomba that was a gift and we ended up having to return it - it worked twice. I have had this for several weeks now and it works like a trouper. I do pick up my bathroom rugs and throw rug before I use it as this is what the directions indicated I should do. I have wood, tile and carpet and it handles it all wonderfully.
I could not be happier with this purchase and I am so glad that I decided to give this product a try.
Update - it worked for a few months and then it died... another waste of money... I can only hope that someone will invent one of these that actually works well.
I've been using this twice a day for the 5 days that I've had it, and few complaints so far. The run time is around 6 hours on max clean, it does a through job of picking up debris, and it is not too loud.
Sometimes during cleaning it gets stuck under furniture and will shut off. You will want to be sure to pick up things off the floor before hand to reduce this problem.
The machine is easy to clean and care for, and I find it needs to be emptied after each use.
I live with 5 dogs in my home, and this is a great solution for me!
So I use the vac one time. It dies. I charge it. Next morning it turns on, and dies. Call the company (somewhere in Asia and don't speak much English) and they confirmed it was defective and to return it. Return was big hassle.
I bought this and it worked but the brush kept falling out. Turned out that part of the structure that held everything in place was cracked and broken. Returned for a Roomba that worked much better with no hassle. - Robotic Vacuums - Robot - Cleaning - Pets'
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