iRobot Looj Gutter Cleaning Robot Consumer Reports

Here’s a little teaser we found on YouTube from Consumer Reports.  This is a very small video clip, but it almost says it all.  I’ve read many reviews of the iRobot Looj, and they are never favorable.  Too bad.

Here are some additional reader comments:

A recent article by Consumer Reports has made it into on-line news and news radio. The Looj has been grouped into a bunch of products that don’t work as well as advertised such as the Snuggie, Sham-wow, and Slap-Chop.

One thing they mentioned is the Looj requires multiple passes and throws debris back up on the roof. The next rain will but the debris right back in the gutter. I’m not sure what the infomercial claims.

And here’s another from the other side:

For what it’s worth….

I subscribe to Consumer Reports and find its information usually helpful, though sometimes wrong–as in the case of the Looj. I used a Looj on my 1-year-old gutters last fall. I found the Looj to be a useful tool, mostly because I made fewer trips moving and climbing up and down a ladder. Also, the Looj worked because my gutters did not have a lot of crud from years of neglect.

Perhaps, Consumer Reports simply mirrored the unrealistic expectations that many consumers have. However, as a testing lab and consumer advocate, it has a responsibility to tear down those unrealistic expectations and not evaluate a product through the lens of sci-fi expectations.

I think that with the Looj, Consumer Reports missed the point.