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I recently had the chance to test out the new 2-in-1 Dreame D9 vacuum and mopping robot. I’ll tell you about my experience and what using this device is like and whether I think it’s a good buy. And spoiler alert; there are some serious issues with this bot you’ll need to know about.
Dreame D9 Vacuum robot and mop combo:
Features: 2 in 1: mop and vacuum
This bot is a combo unit; it will vacuum your home but with the addition of a special mopping pad it will also do a light wet mop. Interestingly the water tank for the mop is part of the mopping pad itself, and odd but effective use of space. Dreame says it has a 150 minute runtime.
Set up and connecting to MiHome app
I’m happy to report getting this bot set up was easy. With the MiHome app it took just a few clicks to get the Dreame D9 connected to my Wi-Fi network and it was ready to clean.
Fast mapping, but you can’t do anything with it: room cleaning not yet activated
After just one pass, my bot had a viewable map I could see in the app, and that’s significantly faster than some other pricier bots.
After about 3 weeks of use three times each week, the map looked to me to be accurate and 100% complete. I tried to go in and label the map so that I could direct the robot to clean certain rooms only. The app would just tell me “Use feature after map is completed” and I was unable to get access to any room-specific cleaning during my testing period.
Power clean for carpets
You will need to turn this setting on inside the app, but the Dreame D9 has a power boost mode for carpets. With this setting enabled, the vacuum mop will automatically recognize carpet and turn on maximum suction.
Mopping cleanliness
The mopping on this bot should come with a disclaimer; this is not a mop in the same way you’d do a wet mop. It’s definitely not as thorough since it uses only a little water (tank volume is 270ml) and a moist cloth, and it’s really best for doing a light dusting, not for an actual wet mopping clean, there is no scrubbing. Important to note, Dreame recommends you do NOT use “non-designated cleaners” when mopping, but it does not tell you what cleaners those are.
Mopping in homes with carpets: prepare for a soaking
You might be wondering how the bot handles mopping in homes with carpet. Good question and the answer is, it doesn’t. It will mop your carpets too… supposedly unless you set mopping no-go zones.
Perhaps that was the reason that more than once in my testing I found it not just on the carpet with a wet mopping pad, but stuck and jammed under the furniture too for a real damp mess.
That’s actually a good jumping off point to the next test. I found this robot both in vacuum and mop mode got stuck every time it went out. Every. Single. Time.
Dreame D9 gets stuck… a lot (and maybe fall)
Does the Dreame D9 get stuck? The short answer to this is yes, it gets stuck. Dreame tells you it’s necessary to pick up stray items like socks, cords etc. before you send the bot out. It also notes you should set up “physical barriers” to keep the bot from falling down stairs or getting wedged under the sofa.
I have several problems here from my experience.
Firstly, a robot vacuum that can’t see steps and cliffs is not worth getting. Cliff sensors are a very basic feature of a robot vacuum and have been for years. That this one can’t navigate that basic home feature is shocking. (By the way I didn’t have any stairs to test it on during my review period, thius is just based on Dream’s own warning.)
When it comes to getting stuck, the Dreame D9 got stuck constantly. More than once the bot wedged itself under the couch, and it did a mighty good job of it too; this bot doesn’t get a bit stuck and then free itself like others do, it jams itself so fully into a small space it is actually difficult to remove it.
Overall review Dreame D9
Overall the Dreame D9 is a disappointment from start to finish and I absolutely do not recommend it.
The company boasts about the laser mapping, but really all that does is let you see where the bot has been, not tell it where to go. I was unable to delineate rooms for room-specific cleans. The mopping no-go areas required numerous attempts to get them to save. Alexa functionality didn’t work for me. The bot got lost. It got stuck. Every time. It mopped the carpets. It may fall down stairs. It claims to kill bacteria when mopping by using the magical powers of water.
This robot vacuum and mop combo sells for about $400USD. Overall after my hands-on experience this feels like a bot that was launched well before it’s ready.
26 июл 2024
