Venga! Robotic Vacuum Cleaner, with Mop, Easy to Use, 6 Cleaning Modes, Quiet Operation, White, VG RVC 3000 BS

 

Sono soddisfatta del mio robot. Aspira abbastanza bene ed anche il lavaggio soddisfacente. Non fa rumore. Se vogliamo trovare una pecca non si gestisce molto nello spazio. Bisogna un po aiutarlo con il telecomando.
stato facile metterlo in funzione.

 

Robot qui facilite la vie. Trs pratique quand il marche. Par contre, trs trs difficile connecter l appli tlphone….

 

 

Edit: I’m changing to 5 stars – following my review the company contacted me directly and troubleshooted my issue for me. Now it works absolutely great on the app, the only issue is the mop functionality but that that’s not why I bought it 🙂 thanks Raphael, absolute legend

Unfortunately the Alexa and app functionality on this is non existent for me – the device won’t link to the app.

Amazon were kind enough to go through customer support with me, went through a load of troubleshooting and even replaced the device, but we can’t get either one working. They gave me the manufacturer’s troubleshooting email but they were no help whatsoever and didn’t actually end up getting back to me.

Disappointed as I got it for the app and Alexa functionality. It struggles in my house and being able to set no-go zones would have made it wonderful.

It’s still better than hoovering manually and I should say, the hoover on it is a decent quality and does a good job. The mop functionality doesn’t actually clean, it doesn’t even get our floor wet.

 

Love this robotic hoover very easy to use and clean and does the job well in my experience.

 

This robot vacuum is great and it does a decent job. So first of all, be aware that this is not a high end maximum power monster that will rip out embedded or tangled pieces of crud from you carpet – no vacuum will. It cleans the surface and picks up dust and small debris – and I didn’t realise just how much dust was in my house until I had this robot.

So it has a standard and max suction – it doesn’t always switch to max mode (or I can’t tell), but the standard suction is fine for me (mainly thick carpet + some floors).

I set it to auto and off it goes. The pattern seems random and it goes over the same spots several times over, and runs for 1-2 hours. Overall, it covers everywhere. After it’s done, you can see the track marks on the carpet which looks nice. It works even in complete darkness.

Sometimes it gets stuck. It climbs onto ledges up to an inch tall – like my fireplace surround, and I have to put some objects there to block the edge. It also climbs onto the base of my barstool and gets stuck sometimes. Make sure your doors are properly open – if it’s half open, then venga will push the door closed and get trapped in that room. So each night, I tidy up the mess that my kids made, block the fireplace and barstool, and then let the venga clean up the rest! Timer works well too. For upstairs, it has a good cliff detection system but my heart stops when it goes half off the top step so I prefer to block it in any case.

After it’s done, you have to empty and clean the machine. You empty out the dust collecting chamber into the bin which is easy to do. Then you pop open the dust catcher and empty/brush that clean too (it catches a lot of dust). And lastly, you use the cutter (provided) to cut all the hair and threads trapped in the brush roller on the underside of the robot – very important, I can’t believe how much hair it picks up!

First few times I used it, the chamber got completely full up and it left streaks of dust/fluff on my carpets – that’s because my carpets and house were so dusty! Now I use it daily (I alternate between upstairs and downstairs) and it only fill up half each day, and there are no streaks. I am amazed every day that it picks up a load of dust even when I think the carpet is clean. Sometimes I have it fo the carpet twice in a day.

It works better on floors in my opinion.

It is noisy, but not as noisy as a regular vacuum. If I shut my bedroom door at night, I can barely hear it in the background downstairs, but it’s nice hearing it do all the work and knowing you’ll come down to a clean floor. It has a bumper at the front and when it hits an object or wall, the bumper clicks and this is how it knows to change direction (in conjunction with the infrared sensor of course), but it can be a bit noisy when it clicks.

A couple of times, it randomly got stuck or one of the spinning brushes came off, and I don’t know why, but that’s pretty much just a couple of times in 6 months. Once, my kid messed with the robot and the robot went a bit mad, doing the same spot repeatedly. I cleaned the sensors, let the battery drain, recharged it, and it was fine.

Make sure all your cables are well out of the way. Sometimes I’ve found it stuck next to my phone charger – it really does suck up the wires tightly and get jammed, so you have to tidy them before switching venga on.

Now, it does an reasonable jobs of the edges but I still find it necessary to use my regular vacuum with a pipe attachment to clean the edges everywhere, but only now and again. No vacuum can get into those edges anyway. And if you have a bit of fluff or something tangled into the carpet, you have to get those out manually.

It can also get stuck under some furniture if the gap is really tight. After 3 months, I found it stuck under the fridge which had never happened before and I had to lower the height of the fridge (it was on a tilt to make sure the door swings shut after use).

The mop function is mediocre at best. It just wipes water across the floor. It definitely makes the floor cleaner but it doesn’t replace a good scrub, and it leaves a bit too much water for my liking (the floor is too wet to walk ok) – it would be ideal for a hot country in which the floor dried quickly, but not in the UK, so I don’t use the mop function. Also, you need to shut the doors to carpeted rooms – otherwise it will drag the mop over your carpet!

It keeps cleaning until it runs out of battery, and then it slowly finds its way back to the charger. A couple of times it died en route and I found it in some random place.

It takes about two hours to charge. I wish it came with two chargers so I could leave one charging base upstairs and one downstairs.

For me, I’m very happy with the robot. After making the necessary adjustments before switching it on, and getting wires and things out of the way, it’s very reliable – even though I mentioned several times that I found it stuck or whatever, it works more than 9 times out of 10. It encourages me to tidy up every day, and saves me from vacuuming all the time. It does an excellent job of cleaning dust and hair and my carpets are visibly cleaner and the house is less dusty. For the price, you can’t go wrong. It’s an excellent budget robot vacuum!

 

I don’t think it prevents the need for a proper deep down hoover but this little workhorse clears up surface mess as it aimlessly wanders around the room. I have quite deep carpet and so it leaves lines as it goes but not in a mowed lawn way but more a random manner. I have only had it a week and it has already been tasked with cleaning EVERY room of the house more than once. I love that it can hoover under the bed and I don’t have to move it like before. I have also got it to “mop” the kitchen floor – although someone else describing it as like dragging a wet towel across the floor in another review is pretty accurate description – I wasn’t expecting it to get a scrubbing brush out!

It obviously takes longer than what it would to push a hoover around yourself but I think setting it off every few days will keep on top of things.

If I don’t have to hoover or mop I am happy!

The only issue is getting spare parts which I ordered WITH the hoover. 3 times I have been sent the wrong item (for a different model Venga vacuum). So as long as you don’t need replacement parts (cos I don’t think they will ever send the right ones!) the vacuum itself is a little gem.

It is a cheap robot vac compared to others on the market – I just hope the parts last!