Roomba 675 (Restored)

My old 675 is cleaning my floors for 7 years and besides occasional maintenance and nowadays bit worn battery no issues whatsoever.

I have the older 677. Still works great. If I had to buy another I’d get the self-emptying.. buts she’s only on hard floors, no carpet.

I should add that I do have one older Roomba in our cat litter room. It does do a really good job, but it’s in a square room with LVP and it really can’t go wrong. I don’t know if I would trust it on long dog hair and human hair in thick carpet.

I had a $600 roomba from like 2018 that was total trash. Then I got some cheap Roborock for $150 a few years ago and it ran circles around it. Just better options for the price.

More complex vacuum and mopping robots with lots of sensors and fail points are probably going to last less long than a simple vacuum. I believe a lot of brands are heavily pushing mop + vacuum because they need replacing more and are more profitable. If longevity is important, I would think about vacuum only if you don't really need the mop. Brands change over time. I have an Irobot 676 which is working just fine 6 years, but they tend to get bad rep lately.

I got a Roomba 675 at a thrift store for $20 thinking I'd upgrade if I liked it, but the thing worked great to control my husky's shedding (plus two fluffy cats and tracked litter). It doesn't have mapping or and the self-emptying bin thing, but I love it.

I live in a almost completely hardwood floored Victorian. I have two Roombas: a "rescue" I found at a thrift store for the downstairs and a smaller off brand one for the upstairs that we jokingly say we got from a "breeder." They have names and the dogs treat them about like they treated our cat when he was still alive, tbh. We have mainly white, black spotted pitt/dane crosses and the sheer amount of hair they shed makes me bewildered because *how could they possibly shed that much and not be bald?!*

Just picked up a Roborock QRevo from Costco yesterday, and was able to return an older Shark that stopped working as an even swap ($399). The tech has come a long way in a few years. I’ve relegated my old Roomba 671 to the basement.