Not a gimmick
I thought these robots are a gimmick and thought I still have to hoover after. But no! I have not yet hoovered for months, my shark hoover been in the garage gathering dust. This Roomba is amazing, the dual brush works wonders on carpets.
The only problem was the filter, there’s better third party ones you can buy on Amazon.

Best invention ever created!!
I can honestly say this is the best thing I have ever purchased!

I have renamed it Roberto and there is nothing he won’t Hoover- carpets, doormats, Lino and wooden floor you name it and Roberto will do it!!

He is controlled by the app and you can set cleaning schedules to suit you. I have also set it so he knows when I leave the house and he will clean while I am out.

I am currently working from home, and with it being the 6 weeks holidays and having 2 feral children at home this could not have come at a better time!

So if your thinking about buying one.. do it!! You won’t be disappointed!!

I Love my iroomba. - nothing to faul
I love my iroomba. Cannot say anything more it’s amazing. No more sand or dog hairs and it all takes place while I am asleep.
Amazing technology and efficiency. After running it 6 days a week fir a month I am still
In awe!

Life change
Forget about your old vacuum cleaner! Only slight issue, if you have a lot of furniture, you need to clear the room before operating it.

Roomba vacuum cleane
Haven’t used all the features yet but it is quiet in use and seems thorough.

Overall good, but...
Overall good product, but do not buy if you have costly furniture: it does bump into them very hard before to turn the other way. I was hoping for a sensor to avoid hitting into stuff so hard.

Good but a bit daf
This is the second robot vacuum cleaner I have owned, the first being an LG Hombot and there are both good and bad points in comparison to my last one.

The good points;
– it has good suction and copes well with the dog and cat hairs. I have 2 large very hairy German shepherds and 3 cats which is why I bought it. That means a lot of mud in the winter. I also have pets in the garden and the mess eg pet bedding always seems to find it’s way into the house the Roomba copes well will all of this.
– it’s easy to maintain, the filters are easy to clean and replace and the rollers are easy to clean.
– because it’s round it turns around in tight spaces. My Hombot was square and got stuck more often but it got into the corners better.
– it seems very robust I’ve had it 6 months and it’s vacuumed every day without any major problems. And in my house that is a lot of pet hairs and dirt.

Could do better;
-the bin is awkward to pull out and if it is full it makes a mess on the floor as you do so. The Hombot had the bin on top so you lifted it out which was much easier and less messy.
-if it gets stuck and you have to restart it it seems to forget where it’s already been and start again, or it will go straight back to where it got stuck and get stuck again.
– it does not seem to have a predictable or logical route, it will do half a room then go and do another then come back and carry on where it left off. which seems a bit ludicrous and is very annoying when I am trying to keep the dogs out of it’s way.
– it’s a bit of a shame it doesn’t learn the places to avoid but perhaps you need a more expensive model for that feature.
– when you send it back to the base it often doesn’t make it.
– when the battery is low it often seems to keep going until it’s flat rather than going back to recharge.

Despite the ‘could do betters’ (which are annoying but don’t detract from the overall performance) it does the job well and I wouldn’t be without it. My house looks so much better for having a thorough vacuum every morning before I even get up!.

Very impressed and 5 stars from our cats!!!
To be honest I was a bit skeptical the Roomba would be able to deal with the cat hair in the rugs. I have been pleasantly surprised at how much it picks up. After doing the equivalent of toddler proofing the floors (fairy light wires etc) it has coped exceedingly well. An unexpected bonus is the box has become the go to space for one of our cats.

Surprisingly good at navigatio
Navigation is great and the mapping function worked well after 1 factory reset! Better than expected results for the price! Just a tad bit noisy for zoom calls but not as loud as my regular shark vacuum.

Roomba great for cleaning up remotely.
IRobot Roomba E5154. Perfect for pet owners. Easy to set up and I was surprised how well this robot actually performs. Both my dogs were not bothered by the noise or by a strange alien device buzzing around their paws. Wooden floors, ceramic tiles, carpets and rugs are no problem for this model. The only negative points are that it does not always automatically find its way back to its charging base home and once it got stuck under a desk. The app works well and I’m delighted with the results. It is not the same as a dedicated vacuum cleaner such as a Shark but for ease and to quickly clean up whilst away or out for a dog walk its perfect. Highly recommended.

eally good
we had this since February and it really makes your life easier. Cleans well and saves you so much time and hassle. We recommend it. Very good price, too. On the negative side, it sometimes gets stuck on things he is convinced it can mount and you have to manually free him. It will also try to suck wires. A couple of tweaks to the house furniture and no more issues. one thing I wish it had is the ability to get him to finish a room before going to the next. It just goes around the house doing a bit here and a bit there until all it’s done. But for the price, it’s great.

very good for not getting up
much improved over their first model (the only one i ever owned previously). the app control is great and it gives you a map of the area actually covered. the apartment is looking very clean and emptying the dust bin is so much easier than previously. this is one lazy person who is glad he has invested in another.

Great robot hoover if you can get on offe
I managed to get this on an Amazon deal and that made it fantastic value. This is a great machine for everyday general clean, but is not for deep cleaning (No robot machines are) We have a dog and it does help keep pet hair under control, but we still need to do a proper vacuum at least once a week. The app is good and the mapping is clever, but not that useful. The bin fills up quickly, so would probably go for the new bin emptying version in the future. Overall a great machine for everyday use, especially on hard floors. Ok on carpet but not for a deep clean.

it works
does a good job for
daily clean but can skimp corners and edges and small spaces. – works well if cleaned weekly. has habit of lockingg itself
in rooms. – software is ok but not up
to more expensive 980 model

I'm impressed surprisingly useful. Must be amazing for pet owners.
Before using the Roomba e5154 I was sceptical. Could a Robot vacuum cleaner really be better than simply running the hoover around yourself, but after a few try (and a few false starts as I learnt what it could and couldn’t do), I’ve been very impressed. It’s really great to come home and have the carpets for an entire floor cleaned. Then all you have to do is empty the dust box give it a rinse and a dry and you’re all done. It’s particularly a benefit that it cleans all the floors, underneath beds, chest of drawers etc. I don’t have pets, but I imagine for a pet owner it must be amazing to have something that you can set to clean the house every time you’re out.

A couple of positives and misconceptions I had from from using it:
1. It doesn’t ‘map’ out the rooms and then stick to a pattern, it simply starts from scratch every time. This is great as you can move the dock, including it moving downstairs to get it to clean there whenever you like.
2. It won’t fall down the stairs as auto detects them.
3. The instructions say it has to be left in a space with 50cm of space on either side, but I found it didn’t. I have a chair at the end of a chest of drawers and it happily sat and redocked underneath that. It’s not very tall so you can also put the dock underneath a chest of drawers or bed, just make sure you can reach it pull it out and empty it.
4. You can buy a second dock for downstairs and they’re reasonably priced (45 from the Roomba site directly)
5. It picks up a surprising amount of dirt! I’d vacuumed my carpets regularly and was a bit surprised at how much it collected.
6. The programmable app is very simply to use, simply set the times you want and it will clean those days while you’re out. You can also control from Alexa and Google Home set-ups fairly easily.
7. You can also control it when you’re away from home so for example if you’re out and forgot to set it going you can. Or if you’re on holiday and want to cancel the schedule, no problem.

And a few drawbacks to be aware of:
1. It doesn’t do the carpet in regular lines, so you carpet looks neat it won’t all have been vacuumed in one way.
2. You need to change the filter about once every 2 months depending on use.
3. It’s quite noisy when it’s going. For example if I’m downstairs and it’s running I can hear it pretty clearly upstairs, the sounds seems to
4. It can get tangled up in shoelaces and things like string left on the floor, so you do have to do some clearing up before you let it run.
5. It can get confused by some features, e.g it was regularly going over the wooden frame (about 0.5cm high) into a wardrobe and getting caught up, but you can use the zone signaler to create a virtual wall and stop it going there (but because it doesn’t ‘learn’ the room you need to put it there every time you vacuum or leave it there.

All in all, if you can afford it a surprisingly neat bit of kit.

Amazing little robot - cleans really well and gets into difficult areas with ease
This little robot is very easy to set up. You need to pick an area with a little bit of space around it for the charging station – 0.5m either side, 1.2m in front and at least 1.2m away from stairs or any Virtual Wall barriers according to the instruction manual.

Once charged, you can either use the iRobot app to set Roomba cleaning or you can simply press the CLEAN button on top of the robot. To pause or return home you can also use the app or press the buttons on top – whichever you prefer.

I have been incredibly impressed with Roomba’s cleaning ability. It seems to be very thorough and has some really impressive cleaning power – picking up a half-full bin of dust and hair from a carpet that had been cleaned with a Dyson just the day before! Roomba is just under 8cm tall so will squeeze under anything higher than that, meaning it can get into places that are tricky to clean on a regular basis with a regular vacuum, such as under our stairs and under the settees. I love it just for that! This Roomba comes with a Virtual Wall barrier – a very neat little block that, when switched on, emits a virtual wall that Roomba won’t cross. It can be set to either emit a straight line wall or a semicircle so can block off doorways or areas that you don’t want Roomba straying into. This is a very clever and useful feature. You should be able to see from the video that Roomba slows down before touching obstacles and so if your foot or some other object gets in the way, Roomba will slow down before gently touching and then setting off in another direction.

Roomba’s battery seems to last very well – it cleans for ages before having to charge. It also tackles edges very well. As you may be able to see at the start of the video that I uploaded, when it is cleaning along an edge it will even follow that edge around corners – unfortunately in my video it then encounters an obstacle, (the radiator valve), that interrupts the edge clean. It seems to be a very robust little robot that handles pretty much anything that it encounters in the rooms. The one thing that we’ve found that has flummoxed it on occasion has been our dining chairs which have long, low bits on the floor (see picture). Roomba has, on occasion, got stuck on these legs and needed rescuing, (it sends a distress call via the app!). I spoke to iRobot technical support about this issue as I figured I’d need to buy a few Virtual Walls in order to successfully block off all the chairs around our round table and wondered if there was any other way around this. I was impressed with the iRobot technical support – they were very responsive, took their time to understand the issue and tried their best to come up with solutions but, ultimately, this is a problem that isn’t easily solved if I want to leave the chairs in their usual positions. Therefore, I am now quickly moving the chairs into one area and excluding that area with the Virtual Wall – a little bit of a pain BUT I have to move the chairs when manually vacuuming anyway so it’s no more hassle than usual. If you have regular dining chairs then Roomba should cope admirably and should be able to hoover around them without problems.

The charging station needs to be left plugged in and in an area with consistent WiFi coverage to allow Roomba to receive info from the iRobot app. However, it is also possible to pick Roomba up and taking it to other rooms such as ones upstairs, where I leave it to clean for a while before manually returning it to the charging station. The edge sensor works really well – Roomba cleans the landing upstairs and never looks likely to fall down the stairs. I watched it for the first few times and wondered if I needed to use the Virtual Wall but no, it confidently detects the edge and sets off in another direction.

Emptying the bin on Roomba couldn’t be easier. There is a button on the side that you push and then the bin slots out and another press of a button opens a door on the bin allowing the dust to be emptied. It is recommended that you clean the filter once or twice a week by removing it and tapping it to clean but it is so easy to do, (it is incorporated into the bin section), that I tend to give it a quick tap every time I empty the dust.

Overall I am incredibly impressed with this little robot. The ease of use, the cleaning power and the fact that it can get into difficult areas means that I would now be lost without it. It definitely saves me a lot of time. Now, if it could only do the stairs for me… 🙂