Roomba 104 Robot Vacuum & Mop

[https://www.reddit.com/r/RobotVacuums/comments/1lr2zgt/prime\_day\_recommendations\_by\_price\_band\_these\_are/](https://www.reddit.com/r/RobotVacuums/comments/1lr2zgt/prime_day_recommendations_by_price_band_these_are/) here are my reccos by price point. PLEASE DO NOT Buy that roomba. Its crap.

Roomba 105 combo (auto empty) - I don't use the mop as it can't clean anywhere near as well as a good manual scrubbing with an old school foam mop, hot Hot HOT water and detergent. Yes, I know this subreddit is very anti-Roomba but for a budget robot vacuum it was my choice. My days of buying very expensive uprights from Shark, Dyson, Kirby etc. are over. The simple Roomba scheduled daily and a once weekly with the Shark does a great job at keeping our rugs clean. I just wanted a simple robovac that can map our house, stay on a schedule and stay out of certain rooms and hoover the carpets in our house and empty itself so I only need toss the bag once a month or every other month and do it for under $250 The Roomba does that. I don't have children at home, I don't have non house trained dogs and we tidy up after ourselves so we have no need for obstacle avoidance to avoid dog poop, children's socks or toys or robotic arms to pick up crumpled balls of paper like it seems so many other people have a need for. Nor do we have a need for our robovac to send a photo of what's in its way because there isn't anything in its way as I said, we tidy up after ourselves. I also don't need to hoover anything but the living room on a daily basis as the bedrooms only get used at night to go to bed so they only need a sweep once a week or every 2 weeks, so it never runs out of power with how we need it to clean the house. It would be a massive waste to send out the robovac to hoover the living room, 3 bedrooms and a den on a daily basis when 90% of our waking hours is spent in the living room only. If I were to do that, then our robovac becomes more of a toy than a tool to help clean our home. Our old 650 Roomba would get stuck under our sleep number bed as it sits so low so now we shut the door or block the room as it's a small room where a king bed takes up nearly the width of the room so we manually hoover that room for the small walkway on each side of the bed and the area at the foot of the bed as we did always before robo vacs. Edit: I bought it for $249 on prime deal and laughed with my partner seeing a regular price of over $400 and said, it'll never go up that high, it's just there to make people thinking their getting a good deal. I checked this morning and sure enough the same vacuum is now at over $450, so I don't feel that $239 was a bad deal at all for a nice, solid robo vac with LiDAR navigation and self emptying.

I bought the Roomba 105 combo with auto empty dock for $250 for prime day. I don't use the mopping feature, but I love it so far. So easy to maintain that I do it after every run or at least once a day. Less than 30 seconds to check on it and tap out the filter if needed. With a double coated dog shedding currently the "60 day" bag needs to be swapped tomorrow probably. It took a bit to figure out how to navigate all the different rug heights, but now it goes around just fine. Super pleased as it's my first robot vac and I didn't want to spend a ton and the dog murder it lol. Overall love it. Only downside is my hair getting caught in the wheel, but again super quick to pop out. I didn't want anything sharp that would prevent that from happening with pets around.

I Jumped the Robo Vacs wagon with a cheap " bump and go " to see if it was a fit for me.. Finally gave up after 3 years, RIP, so decided to get into the new Roomba line with Lidar and " advertised" better bells and whistles.. My dead $80 Vac beats the hell put of the $250 I paid for this crap and the headaches I endured with the software wasn't worth it.. Still after many updates, my Lefants software was better than this one.. Roomba is on it's way out and rightfully so..

My Roomba is also lasting like forever, I just replace the battery every couple years and it still comes back with a lot of debris it captured. The bot is 880. Also their new LiDAR bot is high quality too

I have been looking for one for years. My solution had been to just toss our old one in the shop when we upgrade the one in the house. My wife ran over one, they survive for about 6-12 months. True industrial ones are just stupid expensive. If you can find a used i-mop on eBay, that's the ticket, but it's not automatic.

I’ve had robot shark and roomba. I believe running them daily has prevented us from being buried in dog hair and 100% recommend a robot vacuum. My dogs are very housebroken and I’ve never had the poo every where situation.  Overall, I think the shark works a little better, but I think the roomba’s features and app are better. I just upgraded to the dual vacuum/mop roomba and it’s not perfect but I’m happy. I still have to real vacuum once a week as it doesn’t get all the hair all the time, but the literal basketball was of hair I pull out of the canister every few weeks tells me it’s working pretty damn good.