iRobot Looj 330 Gutter Cleaning Robot

I was very suprised how well this worked.
I ordered The Looj 330 directly from iRobot because i wanted to give it as a Christmas gift and Amazon did not have any in stock. Since it was a gift and i was not 100% sure it would fit in my parents gutters we threw up a ladder this past weekend, not really expecting to clean the gutters, but just to see if it fits. Well the Looj fit just fine, and for giggles i sent it on its way. At first the Looj was just flipping around in the gutter because of how bad they were. The gutters were packed with mud and debris, and it had rained all day. Then my father remembered the Looj came with smaller paddles to fit on the auger. After fitting the smaller paddles the Looj made quick work of my parent's neglected gutters. Yes it made a huge mess on the deck below, but that was easily swept away. I ended up cleaning half the houses gutters in about 30 minutes.

I wasn't confident enough to let it go without watching it. Even with the smaller paddles, it got flipped on its side...

Fun to use, but don't think it saved me any time.
The iRobot Looj definitely makes gutter cleaning more fun! There is a "guy with remote" kind of satisfaction, as you stand on the ground with the remote in hand, directing the robot to go forward/backward and churn out debris from the gutter!

Unfortunately, after the initial fun factor, I realized this didn't save me any time (it may have taken longer) than just using my hands or cordless blower to clean the gutters. While the promise of only having to place the ladder once (to put the Looj into the gutter), is very appealing in concept, I found 3 major flaws that kept this concept from saving me time.

1)It requires repeat coverage
- The Looj was not able to clean any section of my gutter with only 1 pass. I basically had to move it forward a foot, then back a foot, forward a foot, back a foot ... you get the picture. Pretty much had to go over the same 1 foot length about 8 times in order to get it clear enough of debris that the Looj could move...

It's ok


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