Roomba Combo j8 Enhanced

Two labs and two roombas here. J8+ is the newer one. The old fella is a 900 series and lives in the bedroom only now. His battery isn’t so good and he has trouble docking, but he’s still sucking in the most important ways.

Very. I run the J8+ twice a week and the 900 once a week. That keeps the hair in check.

I’ve had very few issues with my j8+ roomba from Costco. No mop. Self empty. Not the speediest: it covers 700 sq ft in an hour. Two cats and mostly hardwood with some flat/low pile area rugs and one plush area rug. Bag doesn’t fill for MONTHS.

I have a couple-year-old j8 that handles the downstairs. It runs daily and empties itself into the base, but I have to clean the rollers & edge brush and empty the bin & knock the dust out the filter once a week. I also have a over-ten-year-old Roomba 595 for the upstairs bedroom. That one I need to empty and de-fur after every use, but I only use it as needed (usually once a week or so). Even with the daily Roomba run, I still need to occasionally vacuum the fur tumbleweeds with the Dyson stick vacuum whenever I see them. And the house gets vacuumed with the big Dyson every other week or so.

I just returned the iRobot J8 Roomba that I bought 15 months ago. It worked fine until the last month or so. It would start a cycle and move out a few feet and then just spin in place until I paused it. I was unable to get it to start over again. I cleared it electronically and re-set it up over and over again and it just kept doing the same thing. Luckily, Costco refunded the $500ish we spent on it in June 2024. I am starting to research other brands. does anyone know about Samsung or Dyson? Thanks in advance.

We have the Roomba j8 from Costco. The first one was flaky so we went and exchanged it and the replacement has been solid.