iRobot Roomba 805 Vacuum Cleaning Robot (Refurbished)
- iAdapt Navigation means it has sensors to adapt its path as you try endlessly to figure out exactly where in the living room your new recliner should go.
- AeroForce 3-Stage Cleaning System is designed to loosen, lift and suck up dirt using counter-rotating brushes (We only wish it blared Kenny Loggins too)
- Automatically adjusts to its floor-type to clean carpet, tile, hardwood, laminate, and more. (The “more” doesn’t mean your yard, unfortunately.)
- It won’t throw itself down the stairs, and has “Two Dual Mode Virtual Wall Barriers” to keep it out of areas where it’s not allowed.
- 3.6" low profile, so it will clean under your furniture, beds & kickboards (We recommend playing “Low Rider” as it cleans.)
- Model number: 805 (I guess the benefit of calling each vaguely modified version of the same thing a “brand new model” is that it makes for a clean and simple model number).
Together Again
On day one, we sold a Roomba. That was in July, 2014. In the last 5 months of that year–our first 5 months of operation–we sold 5 more Roombas. We sold one or two in 2015. Since then, nothing. No more Roombas…
UNTIL TODAY!
What’s the best metaphor to capture the excitement of our reunification? Perhaps we could think of ourselves as a once famous rock band who amicably splintered to pursue our solo careers. We would certainly be the experimental-minded keyboardist, doing avant-guard work with help of speaker docks and vacuum sealers, whereas the Roomba would be the pop-forward frontman, producing hit after hit, each one more-or-less the same.
And now comes our glorious reunion tour!
(Although, now that I think about it, don’t bands usually reunite when the “well has run dry,” so to speak? As in: a last ditch effort to regain their former wealth or reputation?)
How about a different metaphor: in the 2015 we let the Roomba go off to clean, and now, after many years of service to the greater world, it’s made its circuitous way back to Meh, its noble charging port!
Nice pivot, eh?
Anyway, as we implied above, in the time since we last sold a Roomba, there have been, by our estimation, 6,000 new models released, all of which look almost exactly the same. So, if you’re wondering why you should buy this Roomba instead of a different Roomba, we are too.
But here’s what we gathered from these helpful breakdowns over at Vacuum Fanatics: the 805 is basically the base model of iRobot’s higher-end (though not highest end) 800 series of vacuum cleaners. It doesn’t have wi-fi like the 890, so it doesn’t work with Alexa or Google Assistant. Nor does it have the improved sensor capabilities of the 860. But it does have a lot of the other things that make those models great, such as a big bin and an AeroForce High Efficiency Filter, meaning the air that passes through it comes out a lot cleaner (which could be a big deal for allergy sufferers).
That’s what we’ve gathered, at least. As usual, please: if you have opinions on this stuff, don’t hesitate to chime in on the forums!
