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iRobot 4110 Roomba Floor-Vacuuming Robot, Sage
- Robotic floorvac with dirt detection and convenient infra-red cliff sensors
- Auto adjusts to any floor surface; 2-hour continuous cleaning; easy-to-empty debris bin
- Edge-cleaning sidebrush; stasis sensor; virtual wall for confining to designated area
- Rechargeable APS battery, 3-hour charger, 1 virtual wall, and remote control included
- Measures 16-3/4 by 21 by 5 inches; 1-year warranty
Self Charging Home Base Roomba returns to Home Base when it is finished cleaning. Home Base charges Roomba’s battery in just 3 hours and is compatible with all Discovery Series Roombas. Virtual Wall Unit Keeps Roomba cleaning where you want it! Roomba Remote Use remote to power Roomba up, start a cleaning cycle, or direct it to the dirt. Joint the hundreds of thousands who’ve discovered the smarter way to clean. Senses, finds and eliminates dirt. Automatically adjusts to any floor surface: wood,tile,linoleum,carpet. Goes where other vacuums can’t #1 CPR rating in the world. Lets you push a button,not a vacuum. Key Features Self -Charging Home Base self-charging Home Base when the battery is low or it has completed a cleaning cycle. This means your Roomba will always be charged and ready for its next cleaning mission. Active Dirt Response Roomba senses and finds dirt.Once dirtier areas are detected,Roomba automatically increases the intensity and focus of its cleaning. Cleaning Intellig
List Price: $ 299.99
Price: $ 299.99
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Know what you’re getting,
OK. First let me say that this product is amazing and well worth the money. As an engineer, this thing has amazing obstacle avoidance software, and it navigates rooms extremely well. I put a good deal of research into this vac before I bought it – so let me tell you what you can expect, and more importantly- what not to expect. The majority of reviews that are negative are from people with defective units or people who expected something completly unrealistic. On a side note – all of the units have the same capabilities. So I would recommend that you buy a slightly cheaper unit like this one to test it out. If you really like it, then buy the schduler seperately. The high-end vacuum is no different than the low end one. The only exception is the red – which doesn’t have “max” clean mode. This particular package is very good because it has the home base, which is very useful. You can let it run while you are gone, and it will charge on it’s own when it’s done. I did not find the remote to be useful. If I want the roomba to clean in a specific place, I pick it up and carry it there. You cannot use the remote to drive the roomba onto the charger, and the instructions are pretty clear about that. So, I do think it is a useless component.
My wife and I have about a 1500 square foot house. To really get the most out of the unit, we divide our house into 3 smaller areas, and we move the roomba each day into whatever area we want to clean (one large bedroom, the living room, and two smaller rooms joining a bathroom). We then run it while we are gone during the day in the heavily travelled areas once a day and in the less travelled areas once a week. We thought we’d use it more, but honestly, the floors have been so clean – there is no need to run it in an area more than once a day. I was suprised at how well it will navigate between rooms if you leave the doors open. Anyway, the floors are very clean – much cleaner than they ever were with an upright. The roomba really does a great job on the baseboards and under furniture. It picks up dust and pet hair very well. The suction is NOT as strong as an upright, but the unit will cover most areas several times – and after several times, it will pick up as much or more than most uprights. It has to hit larger pieces of debris head on to be picked up. There are some cases where the roomba may hit a small spot only once or miss a spot completely after a full 1-2 hour cylcle. However, if you run it multiple times in a day in the same room – you will have very clean floors very quickly. It takes the Roomba a few runs to reach an “equilibrium” where it’s picking up about the same amount of dirt each run. But expect it to pick up a lot of dust and dirt the first few runs.
Let me tell you what not to expect of the Roomba. If you think you will buy this vacuum, set it in the middle of your house, punch a few buttons, walk away – and your floors will forever be clean – do not buy this vacuum. This vacuum does requre that you empty the bin at least once a day if you use it on carpet. It does requre that you find out what type of items it may get stuck on the first few times you run it. It does reqire that you make sure you don’t have cords or tassels in its way. It does requre that you clean the brushes every few uses. The roomba cannot do anything a normal vacuum does not. It cannot clean over tassels, it cannot magically hop over 1/2″ thick area rugs, it cannot run over wires and ignore them. If you are willing to do these few things, such as “roomba-proof” the room, and clean the brushes – it is MUCH EASIER than a traditional vacuum. It will keep your floors very clean, and you will be very happy.
Let me tell you a story about why the robot is still a robot and it can’t do everything on it’s own… My wife and I were watching TV and the roomba was cleaning (it’s not really louder than a dust buster). We have a puppy… Well… the puppy pooped on the tile entryway while we were watching. The roomba… ran over the puppy poop and drug it all over the carpeted floor next to the entryway while smearing the poop all over itself (brushes, small places, dust bin). Needless to say – it was not pretty – and we had caught it after about 5 minutes. One and a half hours, and 150 Q-tips later – the roomba was clean, the carpet was clean – and the puppy was outside. Lesson learned – watch what the Roomba may run into. It’s not completely fool-proof. It did it’s job… and if I had watched the puppy – things would have gone well.
This is a great product if you don’t have unrealistic expectations. It’s a great product if you don’t get a dud. The jetsons are not here yet – but I can honestly say my carpet and hard floors are much cleaner than they have ever been, and the unit is very easy to use. It is well worth the money.
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The first time I used the roomba, I was amazed. Be prepared to let it spend plenty of time on your floor, and babysit it the first time you use it to see how it works. It’s entertaining to watch! I was impressed at how it spun in a circle around the legs of my dining room table and coffee table. Our living room has an area rug and hardwood floors, and the roomba detected the difference and spent more time on the rug. The sound of it changed, too, from hard floor to carpet. It will hug the edges of a room sometimes, and kind of “scoot” along them. Our living room was very dirty (we have 5 cats), so we emptied it out partway through the cleaning. We plan on using the roomba often to keep the cat hair down. My housecleaning just got a lot easier. All hail the Roomba!
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