iRobot Corporation (IRBT)

[Toxic Avenger]

A life changing product! WOW!!!
5.0 out of 5 stars Life changing product! May 15, 2012
By Sammy
I am 41 years old and have had allergies my entire life - they have gotten worse over the past 5 years. I already take Singulair and Claritin but still have symptoms. I was just diagnosed with asthma, which apparently was caused by my allergies. Thus, I decided to wage war on indoor allergies in my house.

I hired a cleaning company to clean my house a few years ago - they were horrible. I did a better job then they did. Also, I have pets and am not comfortable with someone being in my house with them when I am not there. My problem is time - I work full time and was finding little time to vacuum (to the point where I was vacuuming only once every week or other week). I have 3 cats and one dog, with hardwood floors and area rugs on my first floor and carpet in my bedroom and hallway upstairs. My house was not clean, to say the least. I just couldn't keep up with it.

My brother suggested that I purchase this product. I thought, why not? I did not buy this on Amazon because they did not offer the 770 model at the time of my purchase (in April 2012) or I would have - I bought it from the iRobot website.

This model offers a vacuum with HEPA filters in the dust cartridge. Please note that the low cost models like the Mint are not vacuums! They just push around a dusting cloth to collect dust. This would not meet my requirements, for obvious reasons. This product also has a schedule so I can tell it to start vacuuming at a certain time each day. You can also start the cleaning manually at any time but pushing a button.

It's not loud - much quieter than a regular vacuum and I can be watching TV in this room and it's vacuuming in the next room - would be too loud to watch TV if it were running in the same room. And, my cats and my dog were not afraid of it at all. They can be in the same room with it with no issues. It moves slowly so it it is coming towards them, they just move out of the way.

It comes with an instructional DVD which you don't really need as it's pretty easy to figure out. It runs for up to 3 hours on a charge, and will take itself back to its docking station if it needs to recharge and when it's done cleaning. It has cliff sensors so it knows it it is near steps, for example, and will not fall down! It also has a dirt sensor and will go over an area repeatedly if it finds a lot of dirt until it's clean.

The dust bin is a good size - I have yet to fill it up to the point where the vacuum can't go on until I empty it (it has a dust bin light which turns on to tell you if it's full). But, this is not meant to catch the same amount of dirt as you would have if you vacuumed every week or two - this is intended to be used for regular maintenance (every day or two) so it doesn't need to have the same size dust bin as a regular vacuum.

I have a Dyson Canister vac and this product works better than that for many reasons. First, it takes the time to clean the floors - as long as it needs and will go over an area until it's clean. Also, it has an edge cleaning tool built in and cleans along edges (for example, against the wall) well. I have a 2600 square foot house and I couldn't even clean one floor in 8 hours before, since I was rushing to vacuum, dust, etc. in the one day that I had on the weekend to clean.

Since purchasing this product, my asthma has improved significantly and my house is spotless! I loved it so much that I bought another one for the second floor. And, I have found that I dust much less - I used to have to dust every few days (and didn't, ended up doing this once a week if I found the time) and now, I dust every 3 weeks!

This is a life changing product for me. Yes, it's expensive but it costs about the same as my Dyson and it does all of the work for me. I highly recommend this product!"
http://www.amazon.com/review/RPUPNAA5WYWSA/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#RPUPNAA5WYWSA