David Fucillo says:

AuADHD approved by me
Aware thy title and review are for a specific demographic, but if it applies to you, you’ll understand. I have a traditional upright vac, and it’s always more of a hassle getting it out, rather than the 5 mins it takes to use it. I was considering a battery cordless. Instead, I bought the 15C.

I bought my first robovac earlier in the year, the same model (15C) but direct from co.

I have connected to Alexa (bless my P.A. nothing would be done with her nagging!). Easily enough to do. Just follow the instructions and name your vac. Mine don’t have imaginative names, literally upstairs / down. I have seen some great names though, go for heart’s puntastic best.

I used my downstairs one daily, brilliant body double! I feel I have to do something while the robo-vac is. I move small baskets/tables, and open doors between rooms.

But executive dysfunction meant taking upstairs seemed a bigger job than it actually is, and it ended up on my To Do list daily , so I bought the 2nd one for upstairs on Amazon Warehouse (100).

I have wooden flooring downstairs and 2 quite deep pile rugs, and door mats, it works no problem with. Gets itself stuck occasionally in corners, my room set up rather than a fault with vac. The app or Alexa notifies me and and I tap bumper and off it goes again.

You can direct with remote or voice to a specific area to spot clean. There are a couple of different modes.

Upstairs is mainly wooden, barring shaggy rugs and child’s bedroom. Goes over both the rugs ok, doesn’t get stuck.

Unlike some models, it has inbuilt sensors so you don’t need to plot rooms or stairs, however, it does seem very random, but it has a long cleaning cycle, so does get everywhere. It comes with cable ties, to move them out of the way, the only thing it normally catches is if charging cable is left lying around, extensions etc are fine. There is a slight arch (1-1.5″) under my child’s wardrobe that it bumps around, not sure why it doesn’t sense it, but works around doorways, and furniture, and gets under beds fine (I have an ottoman-style, child’s a normal frame).

For me, my only issue is hair. My child malts like mad, very fine hair, but long, so I often have to clear the roller brush out, again app notifies me, it comes with a tool to do it too, maybe once / twice a run.

The side brushes take a bit of punishment from going over rugs, but I’ve only replaced them twice in 6 months.

It holds a reasonable amount of dust, I have guinea pigs, so it often picks up bits of hay strands, either in the tray or under brushes, I can hear it normally, so I try to empty it every time before it goes back to its home.

The filter is easier to clean, replacements parts are easy to order on Amazon or the website, can order through the app too.

In the instructions it says X is needed for space for the home charging base, it seems fairly flexible. My downstairs is under a small compact 2 seater IKEA sofa ( so pretty small) and upstairs in the bedroom at the side of beside table. I think so long as a metre of free space in front, it’s fine.

The sensors are really good, it gets to the edge of my top step, cleaning to the edge, without going too far.

I would recommend it.

Two things I’d change. Firstly, I’d like to turn off the light whilst it’s on the home base, I haven’t looked at how easy it is yet, so maybe a simple thing. It’s quite bright, as I try to sleep.

Secondly, I regret not buying the vac/mop combo. The only reason I didn’t is that you couldn’t choose areas to mop, and didn’t want to stand over it whilst it went near rugs.