Skilled’s Score
Execs
- Cleans nicely
- Accesses (nearly) in every single place
- Self-cleaning
Cons
- Small, opaque water tanks
- No stand-alone vacuum cleaner operate
- Costly
Our Verdict
The Roborock Flexi Professional is a mixed vacuum cleaner and mop that cleans like a allure. It’s straightforward to make use of and you will get (nearly) in every single place with it. As a complement to an everyday vacuum cleaner or a robotic vacuum cleaner, it really works nicely, nevertheless it comes with a fairly hefty price ticket.
Value When Reviewed
$399.99
Greatest Costs At the moment: Roborock Flexi Professional
$499.99
Calling the Roborock Flexi Professional a stick vacuum cleaner is definitely deceptive. It does vacuum, however it’s primarily a mop and its mop operate can’t be switched off. For extra fashions like this, browse our greatest moist vacuums round-up.
Which means that the Roborock Flexi Professional will not be very helpful in houses with plenty of carpets, nevertheless it’s splendid for houses with plenty of flooring that may be moist cleaned. It additionally implies that there aren’t any additional nozzles included within the package deal for vacuuming sofas and different furnishings.
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To make use of the Roborock Flexi Professional, fill the clear water container within the deal with with water. After mopping/vacuuming, the soiled water is transferred to the soiled water container, additionally situated within the deal with.
Design and Construct
Filling and emptying these containers is simple and handy, however sadly neither of them holds very a lot water (the clear water container is 0.73 litres, the soiled water container 0.45 litres). In different phrases, they should be stuffed/emptied steadily.
That is made much more difficult by the truth that it’s very troublesome to see the quantity of water from the skin. The clear water tank is totally opaque, so it’s a must to open it to see how a lot water is left. The soiled water tank on the again, whereas clear, is product of darkish, smoked plastic. So in follow, it’s nearly inconceivable to see the water degree right here with out eradicating it.
Roborock Flexi Professional mops and vacuums on the identical time.
Jan Sandbladh
Options and Efficiency
Aside from the trouble of the water containers, nonetheless, the Roborock Flexi Professional may be very straightforward to make use of. It’s, because the identify suggests, very versatile and will get below cupboards and low furnishings simply. It additionally will get excellent and tight entry to mouldings and partitions.
It has three totally different modes (Eco, Auto and Max) which you could shortly and simply swap between by way of the show on the deal with. You may also fine-tune the settings for these within the accompanying app to vary the suction energy and water quantity, for instance.
Within the app, you may as well change the settings for the mop self-cleaning (water temperature, drying time, and many others.). It may be set to happen mechanically when the Roborock Flexi Professional is positioned within the charging station, however it’s fairly noisy. Thankfully, it can be scheduled to run once you’re not at residence.
Nonetheless, this self-cleaning doesn’t work 100 per cent, so count on to need to detach the mop curler and clear it manually at common intervals.
It’s straightforward to make use of even below low furnishings.
Jan Sandbladh
Value and availability
The Flexi Professional had a launch value of $499.99 however is now accessible within the US from Roborock and Amazon for $399.99. On the time of writing, it’s not on the market within the UK.
Even with the post-launch low cost, that is pretty dear, and you will discover fashions that do way more, just like the Bissell Crosswave HydoSteam Pet, for a similar quantity, and fashions with the same function set for much much less, such because the Tineco iFloor 5. You may see all our high suggestions in our spherical up of the perfect moist vacuums we’ve examined.
Must you purchase the Flexi Professional?
Roborock’s Flexi Professional will not be solely straightforward to make use of, it additionally cleans like a allure. The automated setting that senses the extent of grime on the ground and adjusts the cleansing accordingly works surprisingly nicely, however in case you encounter notably troublesome stains, it’s fast and straightforward to modify to Max mode too.
And it doesn’t matter if it’s dry grime or moist, the Roborock Flexi Professional can deal with each with flying colors. However as I mentioned, count on to have to scrub the mop curler manually in case you clear up an excessively sticky mess.
As a complement to an everyday vacuum cleaner or a robotic vacuum cleaner, the Roborock Flexi Professional is nice. In the course of the take a look at interval, it was notably helpful within the kitchen, the place there’s plenty of mess and spillage and the place a robotic vacuum cleaner has problem getting below the sides of the cabinets.
Specs
Product: Roborock Flexi Professional
Connections: Wi-Fi
System necessities: Wi-fi community, smartphone with iOS or Android
Battery life: As much as 50 minutes
Charging time: 4 hours
Filter: Hepa
Clear water tank: 0.73 litres
Soiled water tank: 0.45 litres
Suction energy: As much as 17,000 Pa
Noise degree: As much as 72 dB
Devoted app: Sure
Cleansing modes: 3
Vacuum cleaner weight: 4.8 kg
This text initially appeared on our sister publication M3 and was translated and tailored from Swedish.