Neato D5 Area Rug

Crossing too many entire work areas to reach a previously done area it loses track of the cleaning plan.

Neato d5 area rug. Neato will not recognize entering areas previously cleaned when the size of the whole floor plan exceeds the twenty foot diameter of the square areas into which neato divides up the floor. But after that time i have had nothing but problems with this botvac. We attribute the great cleaning coverage of the neato d5 to the excellent programming and laser mapping this unit has. Neato has not missed one spot yet for us.

The first 10 months with this neato botvac d5 was great. Others mentioned their brand would either go randomly across the rooms or miss areas 5 inches away and never come back to get them. It ends up squishing the rug almost gets stuck goes back and again. On the other hand the neato d5 is a little bit pricey costing 599 while the neato d7 is way too pricey.

If you want to purchase the d7 it will cost you about 799. This is my 2nd neato to own. My first neato lasted almost 3 years running at least once a day. The botvac d3 is a winner here because of its cheap price and yet it still does a decent cleaning job.

The neato uses a combination of lidar laser pulses and the occasional bumper hit most often on furniture legs to navigate around. For household with people suffering from allergies the d7 is suitable because it comes with ultra performance hepa filter which traps harmful particles from pet dander dust mites pollen. Neato d7 simply hates all kinds of rugs. Here s a short video showing how it simply cannot handle a light rug on hard floor.

In terms of area the neato botvac can clean in one cycle the d6 and d7 can cover up to 4 000 square feet which is 500 square feet more than the d4 and d5. That alone makes the premium machine a much better buy in the long run. It lags slightly behind the dyson 360 eye for carpet performance but. Unfortunately the d5 is much less effective performing this task than neato s flagship robovac the 699 botvac connected.

It stops after a few minutes and needs to be rebooted. Once i setup the device i activated the first cleaning cycle which cleans and maps the floor space our s is comprised of laminate flooring with low and medium pile area rugs. Neato is a d shape so has corners that fit to clean.