Toys & Games? Certainly not ...

We have the Roomba now for around 4 weeks, and he was appointed on the proviso that it will be returned, it should not be suitable for our purposes. Shipment by Amazon as usual quickly and properly, it was a warehouse Deal ...

We live in a three-storey detached house, each floor so about 95 square meters floor area, having corners, projections and alcoves. In the basement there are the floors tiles and PVC, on the ground floor tiles and parquet and DG tiles and cork. Under the dining and coffee table as well as in the corridor each is a relatively short pile carpet. In the bathrooms, the master bedroom and the children's bedrooms are long pile rugs.

We have decided to try us, the Roomba as my wife was taking the waters and we are constantly ausknobelten who for now is for vacuuming in charge. With our old Miele appliance (20 years old and saugtechnisch still reliable) it made no more fun, one of the wheels blocked permanently in contact with the power cable and you have to constantly lift the vacuum cleaner over the inevitably resulting cable loops of the device cable ...

A new vacuum cleaner would have been payable times, so we decided to test us the Roomba, only without the knowledge of the lady of the house, and later under their stern eyes, and it should serve as a welcome gift to the Kur ...

So enough rum from the outside, now to what actually belongs in the review:

The Roomba was placed first on its docking station to recharge, after about 2 hours he was then ready for use because the batteries were already partially charged by the factory. United put away we have nothing, only the loosely laid speaker cable I have attached behind the sofa on the height of the baseboard. In the living room a plant Roller stand around with a palm tree and a trolley as a side table as a shelf for the TV newspapers, various books and a plant. Here I was skeptical at first, as has been repeatedly reported that the Roomba pushes the plants by half the apartment.

After the start he drove out of the cradle and began his work. After about 2 hours, the entire ground floor was cleaned and the Roomba went back into its cradle. When empty the collecting vessel we wondered, where did all the dust and grime have rumgelegen, but was sucked only one day before commissioning. The removal of the collection container is easy, but you should be emptied either do outdoors or vacuum it with a vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner is normal anyway unnecessary, since there are corners and niches for the Roomba simply is too large and not enters, for example in the corner of our corner bench or laterally between bedside and wall. For this, however, our old unit is still perfectly adequate.

The plants Roller he encounters - just like the legs of the chairs in the dining room - although sometimes quite rough at, but they stop. Before major obstacles slowing his journey and encounters very gently against it. Only the outline of plants Rollers (probably because that under the scooter is actually air, but the Roomba does not fit under the scooter) and the chair legs, he does not recognize, however, this is an indication in the instruction manual that objects or below 5 cm in diameter . edge length are not recognized.

From the suction result, I am convinced, nothing is actually suspend. With the high-pile bath and Schlafzimmervorlegern he is struggling, but really only because he does not come over the edge about it. Should he succeed once to come on the carpet, this is also sucked. At least in the area where he is run over. When Roomba is then back on the tiles he does again hard to come up on the carpet. In the short-pile carpets in the dining and living room there is no such problem, they are merrily run over and sucked in all directions. The simplest solution is the deep-pile carpets suck just the normal vacuum cleaner (do we all carpets then in a room before the Roomba is sent on a journey) and then place it on the edge of the bathtub or the toilet to the Roomba is finished.

A suction lasts much longer than with a conventional vacuum cleaner. But indeed true, I do not care, because I have the Roomba does not supervise or back and must procrastinate but what can make another in time. Only when visiting announcing shortly and the last use of the Roomba is a bit longer ago, it's faster with the conventional vacuum cleaner. Otherwise, it is with us now anyway clean because is simply pushed in between before you leave the house once the button and the Roomba then automatically does the work. Thus, the cleaning circumference also keeps in such actions in bounds.

One problem he had with our son's socks, which were partially sucked. But for that, the Roomba nothing, we therefore use it as an educational incentive to clean up ;-)

On stairs Roomba usually does not go over the abyss, this should happen but once he stops immediately as soon as the front wheel no longer has contact with the ground (by this assurance, he also turns off when it is lifted). This happened only when he directly feed straight to the abyss. In oblique journeys I could not notice this, because every time he turned from just outside the gulf.

From the volume ago Roomba is quieter than a conventional vacuum cleaner, but in order to talk during operation, phone or watch TV, he is again too loud. Operation at night worked very well, only now and then could be heard that he pushed against the door to the stairwell / hallway, in this moment, the operating noise could perceive. In the morning the brownies were then been there. These inserts a Roomba with program function would also be suitable, but it's enough for me, the Roomba just before going to bed turn. On this occasion, I look again briefly if all the chairs are pushed away or superscript from the table (the chair legs are bypassed, the Roomba fits through our on the front, so is geaugt also under the chair only if they are too close together, he comes not cleared through) and other stuff like book bags or cables (cables are run over in the normal case, but with loose cables, it may happen that even the lamp or the phone is taken off the table). So I can save my money for a program function. The book bags are actually bypassed, but among them is just not sucked. So it's easier turning up the book bag.

When used in the DG or KG Roomba is simply deducted and turned without a base station, when he's done he stops and turns off. Then again put to the base station for charging and it is ready for the next use.

Long hair wrap Although the brush, but if one from here and times nachguckt and cleans (must be with us not even a week now) remains the workload manageable for. Worse was there when he took the end of a fishing line role in the basement and this has then unwound until turned nothing more. But that falls in my opinion, under operation mistake because normally is not so stuff around somewhere.

The attached Virtual Wall is not absolutely necessary for our use in larger apartments I would only leave with their help the Roomba one half the apartment suck, then charge the Roomba and then let then work off the other half of the apartment.

Conclusion: The purchase was fully worth it for us, taking into account some principles (deep-pile carpets, cable socks) must not all be cleared, only the chairs are placed apart. We have more time for more important things. Every now and then the corners need to be cleaned with the conventional vacuum cleaner, in the Roomba does not come. Who can accept it, is well advised with the device. For a change of tenant I'll probably make a in the rented house, as small Zuckerle for future tenants ...