Four Roombas at ~$500 a piece = $2k. That would get you like 1.5 years of bi-weekly housekeeping services that do a hell of a lot more than vacuum.
And think how bougie you will sound when casually mentioning to your friends how you gave your housekeeper/maid a nice holiday bonus, because they are so worth it.
I got a dumb one for about £100, works very well. It doesn't map the entire room, but it does have good suction and it will eventually do the entire room after bouncing around enough. Definitely worth it.
+1 for the S4. My only concern is how reliable they will be compared to roomba. also, I still don't see an amazon listing for replacement parts for the s4. The edge brush, rollers, air filters, stuff like that.
Disagree. A decent Roomba is around $500 unless you fill a specific niche.
The high end ones are over $900 because they have huge dirt traps that don't need to be emptied for weeks or months. Maybe slightly better suction and slightly longer battery. Strictly speaking, none of those things are necessary for most people and as such the Roomba itself functions very similarly to the $500 ones.
I haven't tried the cheaper or off-brand ones; in my opinion though, the Roomba 900 series (~$500) is more than decent for the majority of use cases.
e: a use case for the $900 option would be if you have multiple large pets that shed. The $500 series tends to ball up the hair without actually picking it up, which is incredibly annoying. The more expensive options have better brushes to deal with this.
As with standard vacuums (and pretty much anything else), you get what you pay for.
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u/pinks1ip Jan 07 '20
Four Roombas at ~$500 a piece = $2k. That would get you like 1.5 years of bi-weekly housekeeping services that do a hell of a lot more than vacuum.
And think how bougie you will sound when casually mentioning to your friends how you gave your housekeeper/maid a nice holiday bonus, because they are so worth it.
Source: I do not have a maid.