I was so excited when I got my roomba 530 free from live search club. Vacuuming had become really difficult with fibromyalgia. My back/arms would be sore after cleaning just one room. Plus, I had to carry the vacuum up the stairs which was impossible.

Negatives:

I have to clean the roomba after pretty much every use. This takes about 5 minutes, which is about how long it would take me to vacuum.

The battery life only seems to last about 30-45 minutes or about long enough to clean one small room.

The roomba works fine on a neutral colored carpet, but on a darker carpet it still leaves behind a lot of lint that shows.

It always seems to be telling me to clean it or inspect the wheels.

Positives:

Even though I have to clean out the roomba, it’s much easier on my muscles than actually vacuuming.

It picks up a lot of dirt.

I vacuum a lot more because it doesn’t hurt my muscles.

It’s a robot, how cool is that?

Light & easy to move around.

It has an automatic edge detection so it doesn’t fall down the stairs.

Overall, I would be disappointed if I had spent a few hundred dollars on this. However, since it was free it’s a nice added bonus that really helps with the housework.

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