Roborock F25 Review: Powerfully effective (and loud)

It’s got a name like a fighter jet — and it sometimes sounds like one — but the Roborock F25 delivers nicely on its wet and dry vacuuming promises.

Score: 4/5

In this review

Roborock F25 Specifications
Roborock F25 Design
Roborock F25 Performance
Roborock F25 Conclusion

Ethical disclaimer: The Roborock F25 sent to me for review was supplied by Roborock Australia without an expectation of it being returned. As always, this has no effect on my reviewing, opinion or any level of editorial pressure or oversight on Roborock’s part. This gets them a review, nothing more, nothing less. Now, on with the review.

Design

While it pitches itself as a “wet and dry vacuum cleaner”, like others in its category, what the Roborock F25 actually is best described as is a power mop with vacuuming as something of a secondary feature.

Stylistically, it looks more like a traditional upright vacuum cleaner, just one with a couple of water tanks strapped to its front and base. At 26.2×24.2×110.0 cm it’s moderately tall, and at 6.2kg sans water, it’s also slightly heavier than other units I’ve reviewed in the past such as the Tineco iFloor 5.

Mind you, there’s one big difference in the way that Roborock’s designed the Roborock F25 that does shift its weight balance markedly.

Where many wet and dry vacuums put the clean and dirty water tanks to the front and back of their upright sections, here it’s placed on top of the mop head.

This means that instead of being a mostly vertical tank, it’s a mostly horizontal one. While this does change the way the mop moves and where its weight is balanced, one slight downside is that it makes it much harder to judge how much water is actually left in the tank.

Out of the mop body you can tilt to measure. Within the mop body... it's mostly guesswork until it runs out.

The benefit of vertical orientation in this respect is that it makes it easy to eyeball that kind of detail. You can’t do that when you’re just looking down at the water tank anywhere near as easily.

The base is on the larger side. Note: I'm using a white power cable here, but that's because my review unit was an overseas model with an incompatible plug. Australian units should have the right plug, colour matched to the base.

The Roborock F25’s mop head is relatively compact, but the same isn’t entirely true of its cleaning base. That’s partially because its cleaning base is also its charging base, but the practical side of this is that it’s considerably more difficult to hide the Roborock F25 away thanks to its more prominent base. Quite how much that offends your sense of décor is naturally a personal matter.

Performance

I'm not saying that Roborock wants you to clean up murder scenes with the Roborock F25, but...

Setup of the Roborock F25 is a mostly simple affair, with the mop, mop base, a cleaning brush and a small bottle of cleaning solution in the box to remove. Out of the box – at least for my review unit – the Roborock F25 does have a level of charge, but it’s a good idea to let it power up before you do first use it.

Roborock provides a small bottle of cleaning solution in the box with the Roborock F25, with the note that it can use “Roborock approved” cleaning solutions in addition to plain water for cleaning purposes. While there’s no indication of how much to use per water refill, a single capful did a reasonable job of deodorising while not setting off my highly perfume-sensitive senses.

There’s a huge variety of cleaning solutions that specify that they’re compatible with Roborock devices out there, though picking which ones are actually legit is going to be a somewhat harder chore.

Simple controls, from top to bottom: Max/Auto/Eco/Sponge  power mode, on/off button, self cleaning button. That's your lot.

The other aspect of the Roborock F25 that you’ll need to get comfortable with is the fact that it’s quite chatty, letting you know when it’s working, when it’s charging and reminding you to run its cleaning cycle after every mopping session. While you can choose languages for it to speak in, there’s no way to adjust the speaking volume.

Speaking of volume, as I was, it’s also worth noting that the cleaning cycle is quite intensive with a claimed heat temperature of 90 degrees to help ward off bacterial growth on the mop head when it spins up to clean and dry itself.

Naked mop head cleaning action! Not present in this picture: The rather loud volume of the cleaning cycle.

All of which is great, but it is also quite noisy while it runs – and again, it’s going to nag you to empty the dirty water tank when it finishes. If you live in a smaller apartment space with thin walls, it just might end up informing your neighbours of this too.

These coffee grounds were quickly and efficiently cleaned up by the Roborock F25.

Actual cleaning quality is quite good, though like most powered mops claims of having actually dry floors after cleaning don’t quite live up to real world scrutiny. The smaller mop head relative to the previously tested Tineco iFloor 5 also make it a better match for cleaning thinner stairs, though of course your needs there may vary depending on your floor layout.

The Roborock F25 is also capable of nearly-flat cleaning to get under furniture. This has its limits, and you may find (as I did) that with some furniture the mop head can sneak in underneath but you’re stopped by the slightly higher body of the unit.

The Roborock F25 is, as noted above, primarily a wet mopping device, so it’s best suited to hardwood and tile floors. I’ve had some queries in the past about whether you could use such a device for actual carpet vacuuming, to which my answer would be “only if you don’t like your carpets much”.

Testing both in anecdotal usage as well as cleaning up deliberate spills of coffee grounds, flour and tomato sauce gave the Roborock F25 few cleaning problems, though on my hard wood floors it did have the classic mop/vacuum problem of pushing some flour between the floorboards rather than picking it up.

The Roborock F25 makes a flour, coffee and tomato sauce smoothie. WORST SMOOTHIE EVER. DO NOT DRINK.

It’s also worth noting that if you set the Roborock F25 to clean and dry its mop heads and use it before it’s done drying them, you do run the risk of leaving some wet deposits behind. That’s acceptable really; the mop is wet and the water has to go somewhere.

In terms of battery life, Roborock rates the Roborock F25 as being good for up to 60 minutes of run time, though that’s on its lower “Eco” setting. You’ll get less in high power mode, though honestly the nature of the way the charging base works means that you’re probably not going to hit its battery life limit that often unless you’ve got seriously immense quantities of hard surfaces to clean, because every time you stop using the Roborock F25, it starts charging itself again every time, as distinct from a power mop that needs to be specifically plugged in.

For wet spills the Roborock F25 does well, and it’s decent without being spectacular when it comes to picking up debris as well. Roborock touts that the brush is “tangle free”, and so far that’s been true enough, though it’s a slightly different story when it comes time to empty the dirty water tank.

Opening up the Roborock F25 does take some force, which took me by surprise the first time I had to do it, so be ready for that. This may just be a function of being in a house full of people with long hair (yours truly excepted) plus cats, but I found that a constant chore for the Roborock F25 was clearing out the hair that tangled and collected within the dirty water tank. Not a fun chore, that one.

Roborock F25: Alex’s Verdict

At $699, the Roborock F25 is priced around where this kind of wet and dry vacuum sits, but it is a rather specific tool, and that could make it a pricey one if you’ve only got smaller areas of floor to keep clean. It’s quite effective at cleaning, even with just a straight water mix, and the hands-off nature of most of its self-cleaning (cat hair not included) does make it a decent option.

However it is weighted a little differently, and that does have an effect on how it moves around; that will suit some users but possibly be too much weight for others. If you’ve got scope to roll one around in a showroom, that would be wise to ensure that it’s going to work for your own situation in that style.

Roborock F25: Pricing and availability

The Roborock F25 retails in Australia for $699.

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