Review of IRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner 2000 pa Wi-Fi Robotic Vacuum Cleaner
What Is iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner?
The iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner is a masterpiece of the innovative home robot builder Roomba. It is the best robotic solution that offers a type of cleaning that fits perfectly with your home and life. The vacuum cleaner features iRobot OS that delivers unique intelligence to the cleaner, enabling it to work the way you want. In addition, it features Imprint Smart Mapping, which makes it able to differentiate between your living room and kitchen.
iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner needs no assistance on your part; you do your thing and let it do its thing. Through the featured iRobot Home App or Alexa or Google Assistant, you can control it, telling it what to do. The vacuum cleaner is a simple, affordable robotic cleaner with excellent battery life and great build quality. It can clean bare floors, quickly clearing fine debris and having no trouble cleaning bulkier debris.
The vacuum cleaner gives you cleaner floors; all you have to do is push a button. Its featured 3-stage cleaning system is designed to loosen, lift, and suction all types of debris on carpets and hard floors. It offers a quick and easy way to get your floors cleaned and sparkling at all times.
Pros and Cons
The iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner is easy to maneuver and use, and it is budget-friendly. Its battery lasts long, which is pretty impressive, although it takes more than one hour to charge fully. It is beginner-friendly, featuring basic automation functions, and it doesn’t come with an app or remote control. Nevertheless, it works and clears debris effortlessly on bare surfaces, including linoleum and hardwood flooring, and manages pretty well on high-pile carpets.
However, it doesn’t do well with pet hair; regardless of the surface type, it struggles to vacuum pet hair. Trying to use a vacuum cleaner to eliminate pet hair will result in the hair getting stuck on the brush roll. Additionally, the vacuum cleaner has high recurring costs, making maintenance high; it has demanding maintenance requirements.
Specifications
Parameters |
iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner |
Dirt Compartment |
0.09 gallon |
Power Type |
Cordless |
Product Weight |
7.58 pounds |
Battery Life |
2 hours 9 minutes |
Battery Recharge Time |
1 hour 44 minutes |
Battery Indicator |
Yes |
Automatic Recharge |
Supported |
Battery Type |
Li-ion |
Who Should Buy iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner?
While robot vacuums cannot replace upright vacuums, they help ensure the house remains clean and dust-free. The ideal thing is to complement your vacuum cleaner with this iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner to make your job easier. The iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner has built-in sensors that detect what area of your home needs extra cleaning. Then, it’ll make extra passes over that particular area, giving the extra attention it needs to be clean.
You don’t need to worry about pushing the vacuum around because it does it all alone. You can do your usual day-to-day activities while the iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner handles the vacuuming. Furthermore, the iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner is excellent in tight spaces, scooting under furniture in pursuit of dust. Also, the risk of cord-related accidents is eliminated in the iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner because it is cordless.
Additionally, the iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner is great for people with disabilities or injuries. Even lightweight upright vacuums can be hard on people with disabilities or recovering from injuries. The iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner is entirely independent as they go about vacuuming; you don’t push, pull, or even rich. It is also an excellent buy if you’re elderly or live with one; it makes for easy vacuuming.
Review of iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner
The iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner has impressive build quality, with its body mostly made of hard plastic. It has a glossy top with rubber wheels and a matte-finish front bumper; its dust compartment features a foggy, see-through, relatively sturdy plastic cover. With the featured buttons on top, you can press anyone to start a cleaning cycle, spot clean an area, or return it to its charging dock. It also features errors, dirt detection, and battery status indicator lights.
The overall maintenance of the iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner is not the easiest if we’re being honest. That is mainly because the vacuum cleaner has a lot of parts that need to be removed and regularly serviced. Those include the dirt compartment you need to empty after each use, although there’s a button to release it from the vacuum. Additionally, it features brushrolls that you can easily access; simply open the brush roll compartment door and pull them out.
These brush rolls also need to be cleaned by removing hairs that may have tangled with the brushes – at least once weekly. There’s also a filter inside the dirt compartment that you can clean by tapping it on the edge of a garbage can at least once a week.
You can clean the featured sensors and charging pads on the vacuum and charging dock by wiping them with a dry cloth once a month. Unfortunately, the dirt compartment is small, and there is no indicator to alert you when it is full.
The iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner features a 3-stage cleaning system to loosen, lift, and suction dirt from areas. As a result, it can effortlessly clean hairs, dust, and dirt from carpets and hard floors, although hairs tend to get stuck in the brush roll. Its featured Dual Multi-Surface Brushes work together to suck up large debris, dirt, and dust and keep areas cleaned. In addition, it features an Auto-Adjust cleaning head that automatically adapts its height to clean hard floors and carpets.
Furthermore, the patented Dirt Detect sensors alert the vacuum cleaner to work harder on dirtier areas. For example, the high-traffic zones in your home get extra attention because they are always messier than other areas. Its full suite of sensors ensures the robot can intelligently navigate itself under your furniture and under and around objects. This ensures every tight corner that your regular vacuum cleaner cannot reach is thoroughly cleaned.
At 27o angle, its featured Edge Sweeping Brush is specially designed to sweep debris out corners and edges. It has impressive, fairly-lasting battery life that runs for about two hours before it automatically docks and recharges. Its recharge time, which is about shy of three hours, is average for its 3,000mAh battery. The iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner features Roomba Essentials Smart Navigation that works on carpets and hard floors.
While the vacuum can return to its dock and recharge once it is low, it lacks the fundamental level of cleaning. Without that, the vacuum cleaner cannot resume where it left off when it’s done recharging, which can be a problem for large floors. That means you have to run it twice, and this can become a burden – especially since it has no mobile apps or remote control. On the other hand, the iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner is relatively lightweight, weighing 7.9 pounds.
However, the vacuum cleaner is robotic, meaning it doesn’t need your intervention to operate. Nevertheless, there may come a time when it is finding it difficult to go from extreme level changes. In this case, you will need to assist it a little, giving it a bit of a lift; this is rare, though possible. Meanwhile, the featured technology in the iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner is not advanced enough to navigate stairs.
Nevertheless, the technology is strong enough to ensure the iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner doesn’t fall off the stairs. That means you don’t need to worry about the robot vacuum getting damaged at a level difference that topples it. Overall, the iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner is easy to operate; you don’t need special skills. So don’t let the notion of having a robot in the house intimidate you; it makes things easier for you.
Comparison Chart
Parameters |
iRobot Roomba 614 |
iRobot Roomba 630 |
iRobot Roomba 650 |
iRobot Roomba 770 |
Product Weight |
7.9 pounds |
7.9 pounds |
7.9 pounds |
8.4 pounds |
Featured Vacuuming Technology |
AeroVac |
AeroVac |
AeroVac |
AeroVac2 |
Filter |
AeroVac |
AeroVac |
AeroVac |
HEPA |
Full Bin Container Indictor |
Absent |
Absent |
Absent |
Present |
Battery Type |
Li-ion |
Ni-Mh |
Ni-Mh |
Ni-Mh |
Featured Remote control |
None |
None |
None |
Yes |
Product Dimension |
13.9 inches x 3.6 inches |
13.9 inches x 3.6 inches |
13.9 inches x 3.6 inches |
13.9 inches x 3.6 inches |
Vacuum Scheduling |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
Handle |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Questions about iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner
Does iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner have trouble with dark floors or carpets?
Every robot vacuum, the Roomba 614 included, has trouble with dark carpets and floors. Robot vacuums use infrared sensors to send a beam to the floor. The robot can detect the floor and move in its direction if the beam stops within a specific range. Dark floors or carpets absorb the beam; thus, it doesn’t show that the beam has stopped, which confuses the sensor readers. To avoid a fall, the vacuum will change direction; it changes direction even if there won’t be a fall.
What is the size of the collection bin of the iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner?
The featured collection bin of the iRobot Roomba 614 Robot Vacuum Cleaner is 0.09 gallons (0.7 liters) in size. It would be best if you emptied it based on how you run it and what you use it to vacuum. If you vacuum hair a lot, you’ll need to empty it more frequently. The ideal thing is to check it after a few runs and empty it if you notice it is full.