Roborock Flexi Pro review

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 the Roborock Flexi Professional isn’t very helpful in properties with a number of carpets, nevertheless it’s supreme for properties with a number of flooring that may be moist cleaned. It additionally signifies that there aren’t any further nozzles included within the bundle for vacuuming sofas and different furnishings.

Jan Sandbladh

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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 must be crammed/emptied steadily.

That is made much more sophisticated by the truth that it’s very tough to see the quantity of water from the skin. The clear water tank is totally opaque, so you need to open it to see how a lot water is left. The soiled water tank on the again, whereas clear, is fabricated from darkish, smoked plastic. So in observe, it’s virtually unattainable to see the water stage right here with out eradicating it.

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Options and Efficiency

Aside from the trouble of the water containers, nevertheless, the Roborock Flexi Professional could be very straightforward to make use of. It’s, because the title suggests, very versatile and will get beneath 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 can rapidly and simply swap between by way of the show on the deal with. You may as well 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 also change the settings for the mop self-cleaning (water temperature, drying time, and so on.). It may be set to happen routinely when the Roborock Flexi Professional is positioned within the charging station, however it’s fairly noisy. Fortuitously, it will also be scheduled to run whenever you’re not at dwelling.

Nonetheless, this self-cleaning doesn’t work 100 per cent, so anticipate to need to detach the mop curler and clear it manually at common intervals.

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Worth and availability

The Flexi Professional had a launch worth 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 expensive, 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 a lot much less, such because the Tineco iFloor 5. You may see all our prime suggestions in our spherical up of one of the best moist vacuums we’ve examined.

Do you have to purchase the Flexi Professional?

Roborock’s Flexi Professional isn’t solely straightforward to make use of, it additionally cleans like a attraction. The automated setting that senses the extent of filth on the ground and adjusts the cleansing accordingly works surprisingly properly, however when you encounter significantly tough stains, it’s fast and simple to change to Max mode too.

And it doesn’t matter if it’s dry filth or moist, the Roborock Flexi Professional can deal with each with flying colors. However as I stated, anticipate to have to wash the mop curler manually when you clear up a very sticky mess.

As a complement to a daily vacuum cleaner or a robotic vacuum cleaner, the Roborock Flexi Professional is nice. Through the check interval, it was significantly helpful within the kitchen, the place there may be a number of mess and spillage and the place a robotic vacuum cleaner has issue getting beneath the perimeters of the cabinets.