iRobot Roomba 692 w/Virtual Wall

The iRobot 675 has changed my life. I’m a mom to 4 young children living in a 1880 square foot house on a large wooded lot. My kids are outside A LOT and track in all kinds of dirt, mud, leaves, grass, etc. My husband, while I love him, is also kind of a mess and has a bad habit of not wiping his shoes and bringing in a ton of sawdust from his projects. On top of all of that, add in the fact that children under 7 really don’t know how to eat properly and drop about seven thousand crumbs per meal per child. Our floors, wood, tile, and carpet, have been a disaster for years.Enter the Roomba. I have been eyeing this little piece of wizardry for years and wondering if this could be the tool that could change my life. I swept and vacuumed (with a Dyson DC33) multiple times a day. I was constantly telling guests, “hey sorry about the floor but I think we’re just gross and I can never get on top of it”. Well, after finally biting the bullet I regret that I didn’t buy a Roomba years ago. I don’t have to apologize to guests and I can finally walk barefoot in my house without having 100 tiny crumbs attaching to the bottom of my feet. I love this thing more than I have ever loved any appliance or cleaning tool I have every owned.About half of our home is our 2 living areas, dining, kitchen, and mud room. The other half are 4 bedrooms and two bathrooms. I have a baby gate dividing the two halves which acts as a barrier that the Roomba can’t get through. I really like having that barrier and if I didn’t use that baby gate I probably would have gone with the 690 for the virtual wall but I don’t see a purpose for it for us. I run the Roomba every night in our living/eating/kitchen area after we pick up the toys and straighten up the house. This is like magic. I always WANT to have things picked up and put away but I didn’t always do that before the Roomba because we are TIRED. But I love running the Roomba so much that since we have owned this thing we have cleaned up every night since we have owned it. Magic. I run the Roomba in the bedroom/bathroom areas 2-3 times a week in our house. Our kids are a little afraid of it (I want them to be, I don’t want them to touch it, and I may have told them it will bite them) and it does make noise so between all of our napping and sleeping I don’t have as much time to run it back there. I don’t mind though, because the bedrooms do not get nearly as dirty as our living areas.The things I wish I would have known before purchasing:- It really does clean all of the floor. It picks everything up. The crumbs and leaves are gone. It doesn’t miss any part of the floor. I was afraid it would kind of get half of the floor and not the other half because it isn’t as intelligent as the higher trim lines of the Roomba. I was wrong. This thing is amazing. I heard from someone else that you shouldn’t watch the Roomba because it will just drive you crazy. This is totally true. I watch it and question every move it makes. Why did it roll right past that crumb? Why is it spending 20 minutes under that couch? Just don’t watch it! It so nice to lay in bed at night, tell it to clean from my smart phone, go to sleep, and wake up in the morning to spotless floors!- I have needed to clean out the dust bin after every cleaning. I read a lot of reviews that said once you get into the swing of things with your Roomba you only need to clean out the dust bin once or twice a week. That hasn’t been true for us. I’m telling you, we are gross. So if your kids are especially messy or you have really messy pets or track in a lot from being outside that might just be your reality. But that’s fine with me because emptying the dustbin is a lot easier than vacuuming my own floors!- It charges really quickly. I thought I’d be waiting half a day for a charge. Not so. Ours charges within an hour which is nice because I like to charge in between doing both halves of my house. With as dirty as our floors get I don’t think the Roomba could do the entire 1880 square feet on one charge.- Unless you really, really want the features the higher end Roombas provide you really shouldn’t look at this vacuum as a cheap item. The technology in this thing is awesome (or at least I think it is, I’m not really super techy). This is a great robot that does an amazing job and seems very durable.- It does make noise. My mother in law commented that she was surprised it made noise. It’s a vacuum.- It has changed my life. I am excited to clean my house. I am excited to pick up toys. Nothing has ever made me happier about cleaning. This thing is the real deal. I wake up to clean floors every morning and I didn’t do any of the work. Get yourself one.

I purchased this a few weeks ago after my Neato gave out.PROS-The app and wifi connection is awesome. I can tell my alexa to turn it on or off etc.- It doesn't get stuck or caught on things nearly as often as my neato did. My neato was shaped like the letter D. So it was bound to get stuck a lot. This little guy is round and can work his way out of most situations.- It picks up a TON of lint and trash off the floor. We don't have dogs but we do have 2 kids. And my husband is a mechanic that loves to ride 4 wheelers in mud. My daughter and I both have long hair that falls out everywhere. And my 1 year old son drops food like no bodys business. So my floor always needs a good vacuuming. This does the job. I can run my regular vacuum over the floors and then turn this on and it still gives me a full bin of lint and dirt.CONS.. - The biggest drawback for me is the fact that my house is pretty open concept. It cleans pretty sporadically and does miss some areas. Next time I will be getting the roomba that you can set boundaries for. So that you can pick one room for it to clean at a time. For example my kitchen has 4 door ways (weird I know). Honestly I just need that room cleaned most the time when I turn it on but I can't block it in there because it would be nearly impossible with all the ways for it to escape. I have read that Irobot sells something for this so I'm going to look into it. But keep in mind that if your home is open concept it DOES clean pretty sporadically. I usually put it in a room and shut the door. It cleans the room and does a great job. When it's done it plays its little jingle and a notification is sent to my phone. I go and move it to another area. Kind of annoying but better than having to lug my vacuum around to do the whole house.- As I said before, my daughter and I both have long hair and we shed a lot. So every week I am cutting hair out of all the nooks and crannies on this thing. Hair is wrapped around everything! I know it is probably wrapped around the wheels too.. as that is what happened with my neato. So I know I will eventually have to take it apart and cut hair out of all the hard to reach places such as the axels. I'm really not sure if the more expensive ones would do a better job or not. This might just be a curse that we long haired girls are forever doomed to.Overall I am happy with this purchase. We named our vacuum Sir Cleans-a-lot. Hes part of the family and we love him.

Good to have but because it doesn’t remember floor plans it takes a long time to do one. Basically bumbles around until it no longer senses dirt, then quits. Works great, though. Really cleans the floors. Also a little bit loud for me but since I don’t have to do the work, I put up with it.

Un muy buen producto y se cumple la relación calidad-precio, su uso es bastante fácil ya que puedes controlarlo desde la misma aspiradora o desde la app, que obviamente la app contiene muchas mas funciones, configurarlo no fue nada del otro mundo y responde al momento, lo que si noté es que hay una ligera "falla" con los comandos de voz, al menos usando Google y es que la app de iRobot te permite darle un nombre a la aspiradora pero para poder controlarla mediante la voz, solamente responde si la llamas "Google" y no con el nombre que tu la hayas nombrado, de ahí en fuera no tengo ningún inconveniente con la app. Ahora pasando al tema de funcionamiento les comento que esta barredora cumple su función siempre y cuando le den el tiempo necesario para trabajar, los ciclos de trabajo van desde 15 min hasta 1 hr y media; si lo que quieres es una barrida rápida esta no es una opción ya que si se toma su tiempo para hacer si trabajo, a mi barredora le toma aprox 1 hr limpiar sala, comedor y cocina pero nosotros la dejamos trabajando mientras no estamos en casa, así cuando llegamos ya encontramos todo el piso limpio.

iRobot bought with the condition stated as 'New'however, when delivered, box was damaged with hole & tear along the edge. Seal on the plastic bag was opened with hair string glued on it. Dust & tangled hair can be found all over the brush, roller & box internal

Definitivamente amo este robot aspirador, tenía tiempo pensando en comprar una aspiradora de este tipo y finalmente decidí por esta, me atrevo a decir sin temor a equivocarme que ha sido una excelente decisión, la aspiradora funciona de maravilla, aspira toda la casa sin mayor esfuerzo, hace realmente poco ruido comparada con una aspiradora tradicional y aunque a veces tiene que dar varias pasadas, para mi eso no es problema pues no implica ningún trabajo por mi parte, lo hace sola. Al terminar el ciclo de aspirado, regresa sola a su base de carga, sin duda alguna la recomiendo!!

There are so many choices how do you pick? Well we went with this one. Someone, somewhere said it might be good for pets and at least it wasn't $1000. It works pretty good. It moves over small lips pretty good and navigates around the ktichen table pretty good but for some reason the winter floor mat is it's arch nemesis. It gets up and over and into the tray but can't get out. No big deal though, I just make sure to turn my boots at an angle that will block it from climbing up. It also gets tangled in the bathroom floor mat but most other things it navigates pretty well.We have a medium size (hairy) dog, one cat, four kids and I have long hair that sheds everywhere. This is a good choice for regular maintenance of a 'tidy' house and do a good clean with your mop, etc later and keeps it from being as tedious. Make sure to empty out the tray daily and if you do have any hairiness in your house, turn it over at least weekly and remove the hair from the brush on the underside.