Toys with high practical value

The Roomba has been running for about 8 months and it's time to make a sound evaluation. The starting point of the acquisition was the abolition our cleaning aid. After halfway thorough research we decided for a mid-range device. I am very satisfied with the device, however, my wife complained that you have to evacuate too much in order to ensure a trouble-free cleaning process.

Plus points:
1. very good cleaning performance even in those areas where you can zoom comes rather poor (under the beds and furniture, in corners)
2. high entertainment value for technical enthusiasts (see title), I think it's just good, it (with us it is Knut) to leave work and to read newspapers
3. excellent maneuverability carpet edges
4. High tolerance to cables and power cords of all kinds

Bad points:
1. the charging station is has too little mass and is therefore pulled back and forth when docking. This is a real design flaw for me. One would have the power supply including transformer integrated into the charging station.
2. The maintenance effort is taller than the standard vacuum cleaner, but a normal cleaning of the robot also takes no longer than 5 minutes, I've done 2 times.
3. cleaning time is significantly longer than in the manual labor
4. the already mentioned Räumaufwand to prepare, although the device is already very agile, chair legs must etc already have a distance, so it comes through at all, here you need a certain learning curve to find an optimum arrangement, I personally do not find that so bad because you have to also provide high chairs during normal vacuuming yes
5. the programming is not particularly easy or intuitive, also lacks a program buffer, so that after changing the battery set everything new needs (the battery again to be expanded relatively long standstill), we therefore only use the start button.

What people have noted, I can only confirm: we should Roomba only one room max. 2 rooms at the same time to clean. Otherwise the complete cleaning is no longer guaranteed. There is this even an additional part, which he is better able to maneuver, maybe I'll try that too (see heading toys). I would like to say that the included partitions (builds an invisible barrier in the area on) was not working properly and I was easily delivered a new one which is now doing easily.

Supplement to 2 years duration:
There was a technical problem, the Roomba could not be charged alone. With the help of customer service was first attempted to correct the error. Since this did not happen, the unit was eventually replaced easily.

superzar