Vaccum: Mapped entire first floor after two runs, map surprisingly accurate. Having the map means you can designate rooms or areas to clean. I divided my large living room into three "rooms" so I can clean specific sections more often than others. Zones work great (i.e., an "avoid" zone around wires). I brought the vac to a different floor and it recognized that, and made a second map for the floor on its own.
I have a large dog that sheds a LOT and I run this every morning in the room where he spends the most time, and most other rooms several times a week. Unlike my previous dumb robovac, which pingponged around the house aimlessly, cleaning the same areas over and over until it ran out of battery, and getting stuck in my barstools every time, this robovac goes straight to the area you select, cleans in straight lines, works the perimeter, then returns to base. Never gets stuck. You can tell it to clean several rooms in any order you want, or clean "all." I didn't get the smart base because I read that it got clogged with pet hair, the bags seemed expensive, and I figure I'd be emptying it almost as often, anyway, with all the hair. My pet hair load means I have to empty the dust bin after every room or two, but that's not exactly onerous. TBH, it's kind of satisfying to empty out the bin and see how much hair it picked up. If we didn't have pet hair, the dust bin would probably suffice for the whole house (2000 sf) or more.
I have wood floors with a few short-pile rugs. Cleans the wood floors great and the carpets ok. Only complaint is that it's too tall to get under my particular kitchen cabinets so I don't use it in kitchen. The app is great. Alexa commands are inconvenient because it's a whole conversation ("Do you want to start the mop afterward?") and then it usually has some kind of communication issue and I end up grabbing the phone anyway. But the app is easy and you can make favorites so it's just a tap or two to get regular jobs going. This is a sanity saver for me because pet hair drives me mad. In some ways, it vacuums better than a big vac because it really gets under the furniture. However, if the mom-in-law is coming over, might want to pull out the big vac and get in the crevices that this can't get to.The battery life is good and it will vacuum most of the main floor (about 1400 sf) before giving out. Unfortunately, doesn't save enough juice to get back to base (poops out about 15 feet from base) so it doesn't re-charge and resume vacuuming as advertised. Not a problem for me since I tend to vacuum the house piecemeal anyway. I bought it on sale (altho not as cheap as it got before Christmas) and it's worth it.
The robomop is a different story. I bought the two bundled. It's true that you can set the mop to start when the vac finishes. HOWEVER, the vac & mop do not share mapping. The mop has to do several runs of its own to make its own map. It will have different "rooms" unless you take a lot of care to ensure everything is exactly the same as the vaccum. And if you create a zone on one ((say, for a Christmas tree) you have to go to the other one and put it on there in exactly the same way. And here's the big problem: if you tell the vac to do Room 1 and the mop to start afterward, the mop doesn't recognize that the vac only did Room 1, and the mop cleans the entire house, not just Room 1. So the "mop after" feature is useless unless you vacuum the whole house first and you want the whole house mopped. Maybe there's a way to do this but I couldn't figure it out. Also, the iRobot floor cleaner, which they say is the only cleaner you can use, leaves streaks on hardwood floors. As other reviewers noted, water does better. So you are limited to water and like to use products that make my wood floors glow. Plus, this mop takes forever and doesn't get up dried on food or other hard stains. And for some reason, my mop doesn't recognize that I put the "wet mop pad" on it, and will only offer to "dry mop" , which is what, exactly? I haven't bothered to try to fix it. Plus, you have to put on the mopping pad and fill the reservoir with water every time. Easier, faster and better to just grab my Bona mop with its great hardwood floor cleaner and make a pass over my floors from time to time. To be fair, the robomop might work better for someone who works away from home and can schedule the vacuum and mop to run while they're gone, and then come home to clean floors. And when I have used it, it does make the floors appreciably cleaner than just vacuuming.
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Roomba Combo j5 Features
A more thorough clean
Cutting-edge navigation and 2 cleaning pass settings allows Roomba Combo to navigate your home in neat, efficient rows for a wall-to wall clean.
Focuses on dirt
Proprietary Dirt Detect Technology allows Roomba Combo j5 to detect dirtier areas and clean more thoroughly when the Vacuum Bin is installed.
Powerful performance & pickup
The same intelligence and vacuuming technology as the Roomba j7, now converts from vacuum-only to a vacuum & mop with the simple switch of a bin.
Compatible with Clean Base
Compatible with iRobot’s Self-Emptying Clean Base Automatic Dirt Disposal for up to 60 days of hands-free vacuuming
Easy to use App
The iRobot Home App provides control of your clean with enhanced maps, custom routines, seasonal suggestions, and intuitive smart home integration.
Made with you in mind
iRobot OS does more than just clean. It learns and adapts to your space, habits and preferences to customize a cleaning plan tailor-made for you.
Your privacy is our priority
We use only the highest standards of data encryption and only use your information to improve your experience and your robots performance.
30 years of experience
The iRobot promise is backed by 30 years expertise, innovation, and responsive service. If you ever need help, we're just a phone call or email away.
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| surface suggestion | Hard Floor, Carpet | Hard Floor | Carpet, Hard Floor | Hard Floor, Carpet, Wood, Tile | Dual Action, Hard Floor, Carpet |
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| battery average life | 180 minutes | — | 90 minutes | 180 minutes | — |
| compatible devices | Amazon Echo, Google Home | Amazon Echo | Amazon Echo, Google Home | Amazon Echo, Google Home, Smartphones | Amazon Echo |
| weight | 7 pounds | — | 5 pounds | 7 kilograms | 7.44 pounds |
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So frustrating
We had off-brand versions of robot vacuum cleaners for several years and they did okay, but we finally decided to bite the bullet and go with the official big-brand name, the best of the best in the robot vacuum business, Roomba. Unfortunately, this was a mistake. I didn't think it was possible to have such a frustrating experience with a vacuum. Even when this thing is working perfectly, it doesn't seem to do as good of a job as my other cheap vacuums did in the past. He can barely pick up crumbs in my kitchen, and usually just spreads them around and tosses them into new places. The mopping function on it is a joke. It would be more effective to just tie a damp paper towel to the back of the thing and let it run around for an hour and a half. But then, less than a month into using it, I start getting notifications that my scheduled cleaning job completed 2 seconds after starting (see screenshot). This happened several times a week for several weeks and I finally reached out to customer service about it. They put me through several painful weeks of trying every possible resest/restart/reprogramming imaginable and the problem still kept coming back. Eventually I convinced them to send me a new one, as I was convinced that I had received a lemon. Got the new product and set it up, and everything seemed fine... When not TWO WEEKS LATER it started happening again!!! I've been hesitant to even reach out to customer service this time, because I don't want to go through the painful and lengthy troubleshooting process all over again. I just want my money back so I can go buy one of those trusty non-name-brand vacuums again!
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Rebecca Smith
Should have bought this year's aging.
Reviewed in Canada on May 1, 2024Style: Roomba Combo J5Verified Purchase
Amazon Customer
Didn't avoid pet poop
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Brendan
Ok vaccum; bad combo
Reviewed in Canada on January 22, 2024Style: Roomba Combo J5Verified Purchase
Maxime Ramon
Worse than other systems
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