Home Appliance Reviews

I’ve been interested in the Roomba since it first came out, but back then, I felt like it was probably a good idea to wait and see how it did for a while before buying one. I’m glad I waited, because this 5th. generation Roomba 530 seems to have ironed out just about all the complaints and issues I heard voiced about earlier models.

(I haven’t seen this one get stuck under furniture it wasn’t able to get out from under, or get caught trying to go over an area rug - and so far, it has always successfully found its charging base when it was finished.)

We have been big fans of the iRobot line of robotic cleaning products for a year and a half now. We’ve bought the Roomba and Scooba for our home and have given the Roomba and Looj as gifts. We order Scooba cleaning solution, extra batteries, and robot replenishment kits. All in all, we’ve probably thrown about $1500 at iRobot in the past 18 months…