We have about 130m ^ 2 Living area, which is spread out over several levels. The largest room is the living room / kitchen / dining room with about 50. There is also the main purpose of the little helper.
The first round of the Roomba, we have closely watched around the traps for the Roomba chest right fixed and out of the way.
Amazingly, were the not so many. Even cables are not "eaten up" by the Roomba. It can be relatively quickly escape from a possible predicament itself and perform its job on.
It should not be too much decoration on the floor lying around so that he as not always matched drives. Experience has shown that it tends not to recognize same chair legs and narrow objects and then he goes against it. But this seems to be the case only if he zufährt directly. If the object from the side, it reduces the speed and then nudges only against it.
Now I would like to come to the suction power of the small robot.
First, I would describe the apartment coverings in a nutshell. Laminate and tile throughout the house, plus a sisal rug and some doormat. In general, the floors are flat, is he ready Roomba is then transferred manually to another level.
Starting off, we are in the living room and were very surprised at how thoroughly he sucks it. Especially with the high number of lost hairs our two beagles we had in mind that he do it. But no, everything was soaked.
It caught even no hair in the brush. The seems like one could read some reviews of the product itself in the case PET model. At 650, the short hair of our dogs do not get caught.
However, I can not detect a system with the best will in sucking, he seems completely arbitrary to go through the apartment. But that is secondary for me as it is to suck when I'm not there. In addition I have programmed him accordingly. This really is simply out of hand. Briefly looked into and already programmed!
I had to ask the chairs of the dining area on the table, so that the Roomba is under the table "caught" and not spend hours driving back and forth under the table and trying to get free.
Also in the bedroom (fluff under the bed), bathroom (tiles) and entrance (living room of Barney and Fred and the vollgehaarten doormat), the suction performance satisfactory.
On the doormat he recognizes the more pollution-the little blue lamp lights up and he drives several circles over the assignor until it is clean and continues to work in the room.
I then carried out two small tests.
I have asked the fall protection times to the test and I am surprised that this works! He drives to the stair nosing and maneuvered skillfully back into the room.
In the second test I made to the test and my kitchen time "eingesaut" really neat and scattered crumbs and sugar (40g). Sugar already falling down but a time ;-). Since I have to say that the Roomba is not as good coped with the sugar. The small front roller "grind" the sugar and so you then little sugar has traces on the tiles. Here the use of conventional vacuum cleaner is then advisable.
The Roomba is really clean very quickly after the completion of vacuuming. That really takes a few minutes. We have the Roomba 650 now 2 weeks in use and I have not even made the Roomba completely clean. For this I used a compressor. The brushes can be take out within seconds and then I could Roomba blow with the compressed air. I can imagine that this is also possible with the compressed air from the cans. The filter in the receiver I could also blow freely with the compressor.
Now even a brief summary of my review:
Positives:
+ Time savings for the user
+ Easy programming!
+ Quick to clean
+ Suction really good (this being-there always subjective everyone has a "different eyes")
+ No felting short dog hair in the brush
+ Eats no thicker cables
+ Can usually get out of the predicament
+ Battery charge still sufficient for 50m ^ 2
+ Always find the Home Base when it is in the same room
Negatives:
-Yes Could be difficult relatively loud television and calls the way
-surface Roomba very kratzempfindlich- Our already got some "battle scars"
Neutral:
- Apartment must first be examined for possible traps
- Dining areas with plenty of chairs can confuse the Roomba, so I would advise the chairs high note
- There must be at least 9,3cm headroom exist under the furniture, otherwise it does not go under it and / or clamped to..
Here is some more information on spare parts. Since I have not found at Amazon, which are designed to fit in the Roomba 650, I turned to the iRobot Customer Support at [...] and my question has been answered within 2 hours.
Quote. "... The side brush fits any Roomba, the AeroVac container Roomba 564 Pet and Roomba 565 Pet are fit only for the robots of the 600-series.
If you want to buy a new container, you must anweden to small Robotics - they are responsible ".
All in all I am very satisfied with the device and can only recommend buying.
Who wants to see the Roomba times in "äkschn" This may be: [...] do.
