iRobot Roomba® 560 Vacuum Cleaning Robot UK Fans Reviews
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I bought one and there is not going back; it’s great!
This is for those who don’t want to vacuum but want a vacuumed floor. It is amazing; you can leave it to get on with the floor and it picks up dirt really well.
It does hard floors 100%, but about 95% for carpets, as some fluff from socks was not picked up, but for the most part after it had vacuumed the floor was immaculate. It is not maintenance free - each of its two dust compartments will need emptying and brushes cleaning regularly, so that should be planned by future owners/ buyers of it. This took me less than five minutes and is something I quickly learnt how to do. I suspect that now that I am looking after my floors - or rather it is - it will not fill up or clog up as quick as that! If you had an ordinary vacuum cleaner that would be the same though and you would also have to do the vacuuming!
It has a docking station which you connect to the mains for where it can ‘live’ and charge itself, so you need to make about a 2 foot square space for that and it when it comes ‘home’. It comes with two accessories which you set either as virtual walls to stop it entering areas/rooms or you set as virtual lighthouses which act as points of reference for it so it will clean the first room first before moving past the lighthouse and doing the next room. This enables it to focus its random cleaning movements on one room at a time so any possible disruption is confined to one room. I find it quiet, particularly when I am not in the same room as it or when its vacuuming under the sofa or bed! This was something I rarely bothered to do as it meant moving furniture. The Roomba 560 was able to go under and around most of my furniture. It has a 7 day programmable timer so you can ask it to do a clean each day if you want at a certain time when you are out at work for example.
I thoroughly recommend this vacuum cleaner, not just to people who hate to vacuum / have not much time, but for people who have back problems or are disabled provided there is someone who can do the required maintenance.
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