Jane Reviews: Household Cleaning

Roomba by I Robot

Two words. Love it! I have been wanting one of these since they came out but I aways wondered if it really worked or were they just a gimmick.

My unit is used and came from Ebay. It's a refurbished unit of an older model #4100 and it was $100. Amazon carries them too.
Roomba

First you charge him up (I named mine Gary) He has a power pack that took about 15 hours to charge the first time.
You put him in the middle of the room and he starts out going in small circles until he hits a piece of furniture. He has bumpers that allow him to "feel" the furniture and go completely around it. It goes up on area rugs (as long as there is not fringe) and under furniture. If he finds and area that he feels is really dirty a blue light flashes and he stays on the area until it is clean. He seems to really remember where he has been and gets the entire floor. He has a cliff sensor so he won't go down the stairs. He will go from room to room but if there is an area you don't want him to go there is a virtual wall (that takes batteries) and you can set it up across a door way and he won't cross it.

There is also an edge cleaner which works great on getting the cat hair that seems to hug the walls.

All in all I highly reccomend it. While I did follow him around the first few times I used him now I just turn him on and leave and he cleans the floors while I am doing my morning outside chores.

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