iRobot Roomba 692 Wi-Fi Robot Vacuum, Self-Charging

La verdad limpia muy bien y en lugares de difícil acceso. Me ha estado funcionando y ayudando con la limpieza por un par de meses y puedo decir que estoy satisfecho. Como consejo, mientras más despejado este el piso mejor para que pueda trabajar bien.

Here are a few tips if you’re thinking about getting a Roomba (which you should!)

1. Wait until Prime Day or an equivalent sale. I bought this model for $220 (tax included). If you live in the Seattle area, watch out for the Amazon deals – Amazon vans will park random places for one day only to offload products at a steep discount. The Roomba is a regular for that rotation – I’ve seen this model sold for $140.

2. Do not buy cheap knockoff versions for replacement parts on Amazon. Buy only iRobot products (from them directly if possible). There are a lot of versions of fake products from Chinese companies sold on Amazon. These parts are crappy and could impact the performance / lifetime of your Roomba. One example of that is the replacement air filters. The cheaper versions do not seal correctly, so dust gets into the small cracks and other mechanisms within the machine. Replacing your vaccum will cost a lot more than a $10 air filter.

3. Clean your air filter with a toothbrush after each use to reduce the clog of dust. Replace the filter every 3 months.

4. Do a deep cleaning of your Roomba every 6 months. Use a mini flathead and a small phillips to take off the front cover (you’ll need to take off the small, yellow spinning brush first using the small flathead). Be careful because the threads of the tiny screw are mounted in plastic casing. Very easy to strip. Clean out all the hair around the small screw that attaches the spinning brush (after 6 months, this can cause the brush to stop spinning – 90% of the time, it’s just hair – side note – this motor is also replacable for only $15 on the iRobot website).

I’ve noticed a fair amount of negative reviews discussing the shelf life of Roombas. People are making comments like “My cats killed our Roomba” etc. I’d like to set the record straight for this awesome company. Basically, in life, you can’t get things for free. You can’t expect your car, for instance, to function well over time without regular maintainence. Most people hate car maintanance, so it has become widely accepted for most people to pay someone to fix / clean their car. And, for most people this makes a lot of sense. We’d rather spend our time doing other things besides changing the oil, checking the tires, checking the radiator, maintaining the engine and so on.

For vaccums, the mechanics are much less complex than a car. However, they still incur a ton of wear and tear like dirt, cat hair, female hair, dust, and eveything else that lands on the floor. Over time, even the best vaccum will break or need repairs if it is not well maintained. In the old days, we had vaccum repair shops because people hated working on their vaccums. Then, everything possible became automated and outsourced. We could have Roomba repair shops that cost $30 to do a tune up of your Roomba. People would probably pay it. But, rest assured, the same people complaining about paying for that would be the same people who complained about the amazing Roomba – the vaccum that does its job with very little work from the human. The only thing is doesn’t do well is clean itself. What we need is a cat Roomba.

My closing thought is this one. Spend one hour every three months maintaining your Roomba, and you will save yourself 50+ hours a year (a whole work week) of vaccuming. That’s very simple math, but it will require some effort on the part of the human. I purchased mine on Prime Day 8 months ago. I did my first deep clean (along with the regular air filter cleaning with each use) and she is gently purring like the first day I discovered her :-).

I do not own securities in iRobot or work for them. This review is completely of my own writing.

It is my first robot vacuum, so take that into consideration, it is finicky sometimes, meaning it there is no specific patterns where it goes, keeps bumping everything until it clears the way, I think it’s ‘face’ got scratched all over within the first 3 weeks of usage, but that’s pretty much all the downsides, it vacuums well, with a very good power, of course do not think that it can replace your thorough proper cleaning, but it definitely can prolong non-cleaning days by a week or two.
To me personally, it is in top 5 purchases ever made, such a huge time saver, honestly, if you have a little baby, maybe a pet, work full time, just get the vacuum, you will not regret, my plan is to upgrade this one in a year or two, because now I am even lazy to clean it (i want to get one with a station) and later robot mop, what do you say, future is now

Our floors are much cleaner now that we run this machine every few days. Because we have it, we are mindful of cords, cat toys and other items on the floor that could tangle it up, so its presence also kind of enforces a level of tidiness.

This machine does not learn quickly, it is not using satellites and cameras to map the shifting topography of our home, and I am happy with that. What it does is wander from room to room in an apparently random fashion, and it always finds dirt. It eventually seems to go over the entire floor. We have two cats who find it loud and unpleasant, but also fascinating. They stalk it from covert locations, calculating the balance of the predator/prey relationship. Someday, they may attack it, but if that happens, I think the Roomba will survive.

Cons:
Somewhat loud – It is as loud as a normal vacuum cleaner
Needs supervision – It can’t be left running home alone, because it gets stuck under furniture from time to time. It sometimes makes mistakes that could endanger its life. I block it from entering areas where it could fall off of a cliff, because in spite of the cliff detection feature, I think it might very well fall off a cliff if given the chance.
Only one phone allowed – The phone app seems to allow for only one phone per user, so only one member of the household can command the vacuum from the phone app; not a big deal for me because I just push the button on the top of the Roomba and it takes off.
Pros: It vacuums the house frequently. I am never going to do that.
It has the work quality of maybe a ten year old who was asked to vacuum the house–but unlike a ten year old, it is persistent.
The suction is good, it gets diirt out of deep rugs and it does well in the corners.
It is able to get over thresholds and it is fine around our cat dishes- pushes them a little bit but then backs away.