Not an easy task: how to choose the right window cleaning robot?

We will dis­cuss robot­ic and man­u­al clean­ers with brush­es made of heat-resis­tant plas­tic, and not employ­ees of a clean­ing com­pa­ny. Why is the ques­tion of how to choose the right win­dow clean­er for rooms, log­gias, glazed bal­conies or veran­das not so triv­ial? There is nei­ther ener­gy nor time for shin­ing clean win­dows, espe­cial­ly fear­less­ness and sports train­ing (it is not safe to wash them on the sec­ond floor, not to men­tion the fifth or fif­teenth). Uni­ver­sal wind­shield wipers of var­i­ous thick­ness­es and any shape of win­dows are not yet pro­duced today. There­fore, the best option for a win­dow clean­er is cho­sen accord­ing to the com­bi­na­tion of char­ac­ter­is­tics, tak­ing into account their type, pow­er and such a nuance as a brand.

We decid­ed to include in our review mod­els that guar­an­tee glass wash­ing with­out streaks and dirt in the cor­ners. If you like struc­tured infor­ma­tion about the lat­est inno­va­tions, we rec­om­mend that you check out our rat­ing of win­dow clean­ing robots in 2022.

Not an easy task: how to choose the right window cleaning robot?

The com­plex­i­ty of the choice in the absence of the nec­es­sary infor­ma­tion (these devices appeared on the mar­ket not so long ago) and a large assort­ment. Let’s start in order. Accord­ing to the prin­ci­ple of oper­a­tion, wind­shield wipers are divid­ed into vac­u­um, mag­net­ic and robot­ic devices. Mag­net­ic devices can clean one-sided sur­faces: mir­rors, tiles in the bath­room. But these are addi­tion­al fea­tures, and most impor­tant­ly — for mag­net­ic mod­els there is a lim­it on the thick­ness of dou­ble-glazed win­dows (but they are washed from both sides at once, it turns out 2 times faster!) Vac­u­um mod­els and bat­tery wash­ers for dry and “wet” clean­ing are con­sid­ered more ver­sa­tile.

Wash­ers come in many shapes, but the best in the job is the round robot win­dow clean­er. How to choose an inex­pen­sive and opti­mal mod­el accord­ing to all cri­te­ria, we will tell fur­ther. For those who know every­thing, the top 10 win­dow clean­ing robots have been pre­pared.

If you have panoram­ic win­dows, we are def­i­nite­ly inter­est­ed not only in the length of the safe­ty cord, but also in the pow­er of the devices (the more, the bet­ter). The price of such mod­els is high­er. Addi­tion­al acces­sories are not super­flu­ous: replace­able sponges, clean­ing agent, rub­ber squeegees, tele­scop­ic han­dle.

Optimal solutions

Tri­an­gu­lar mag­net­ic wash­er Vilai­jie eas­i­ly copes with sin­gle-cham­ber, two-cham­ber and three-cham­ber dou­ble-glazed win­dows (up to 40 mm thick). It has adjustable mag­net pow­er, has a long cord, and cus­tomers love it. The nuance is that for each type of dou­ble-glazed win­dow you need to buy your own mod­el.

The ques­tion is how to choose the right win­dow clean­ing robot with a mod­el Hutt DDC55 from the Xiao­mi brand dis­ap­pears auto­mat­i­cal­ly. The ele­gant, oval-shaped clean­ing robot fea­tures two clean­ing discs and excel­lent fea­tures:

• effec­tive con­tin­u­ous oper­a­tion for 20–30 min­utes (charges a lit­tle more than 2 hours);
• pro­duc­tiv­i­ty — 1 m²/3 min, auto­mat­i­cal­ly adjusts the pow­er depend­ing on the con­t­a­m­i­na­tion of the sur­face;
• cord length — as much as 8 m!
• weight — 1.14 kg with dimen­sions 37.5x31.5x8.5 cm.

Minus one — the price range is 140–200 $. At a dis­count, a clean­ing robot will be the best invest­ment in the clean­li­ness of win­dows and mir­rors.

In our review, we includ­ed a mul­ti­func­tion­al steam clean­er from the Kit­fort brand (mod­els KT-917, KT-986, etc.), which is great for pri­vate estates and apart­ments. It is used not only as a win­dow clean­er, but also as a dis­in­fec­tant, and as a steam­er for out­er­wear and cur­tains. This is one of the alter­na­tive answers to the ques­tions “how to choose a win­dow clean­er” and “what is the best clean­er”. Hot steam con­quers any dirt! There­fore, no addi­tion­al clean­ing agents are required (the sav­ings are obvi­ous). Light man­u­al (< pow­er) and a lit­tle baboutLarge in weight and pow­er, floor-stand­ing steam clean­ers pro­vide per­fect clean­li­ness in the house.

Impor­tant char­ac­ter­is­tics of the 42x30x27 cm steam clean­er:

• con­tin­u­ous steam sup­ply for 1 hour;
• steam hose length — 1.6 m (pow­er cord — 4 m);
• a rich set of acces­sories (6 types of brush­es, glass scrap­ers and noz­zles);
• qual­i­ty assem­bly.

In the Kit­fort mod­el range, the cost of steam clean­ers is dif­fer­ent (wash­ers are pre­sent­ed in each price seg­ment), it is easy to find “your” mod­el.

Con­trol the weath­er at home! Our arti­cle “How to choose a good humid­i­fi­er for your apart­ment” will help with this.

Vac­u­um cord­less wipers are true all-rounders! Com­pact devices are in demand for the home (dormer win­dows and clas­sic ones, mir­ror, tiles in the bath­room and bath­room) and for clean­ing car win­dows. They eas­i­ly cope with con­den­sa­tion on smooth sur­faces. You do not like the stains on the glass and the squeak dur­ing the clean­ing pro­ce­dure? Then we choose the Ital­ian wash­er KARCHER WVP 10. Amaz­ing per­for­mance: in 30 min­utes of bat­tery life, I wash up to 100 m².

Con­sid­er the rest of the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the com­pact device (28x13x33 cm):

• light weight — only 0.95 kg;
• wide scraper — 28 cm;
• ergonom­ic han­dle.

The KARCHER mod­el range includes sev­er­al devices with dif­fer­ent prices that guar­an­tee per­fect clean­ing with­out smudges and streaks — WV50 PLUS, WV6 PLUS, WVP 10 Win­dow Vac­u­um Clean­er, etc. Of the minus­es, we note charg­ing up to 3 hours and not a bud­get price.

We hope that the advice on choos­ing a win­dow clean­er (and oth­er smooth sur­faces in the apart­ment) will be use­ful to you. Good luck and hap­py shop­ping!