To regret not getting a robot vacuum sooner

@JudesBiggestFan You had a Henry? Oh dear! We just have a wand one for crumbs. I cannot imagine programming robot one for our house. We vacuum once a week.

Eufy messaged this week to see if we'd have any interest in a stair climber. I had seen some videos and responded that they look great, but they need to clean the stairs on the way past! 😂

DH has been talking about buying a cordless hoover as our Eufy lives downstairs and he hates getting the big hoover out and lugging it round the house.

But I might move my non mopping Eufy (Robbie) upstairs and get a new mopping one for downstairs.

That only leaves the stairs and I'm sure we can manage those 🤔

They can’t but you can buy little ramps. We have two.

Do you know whether they can navigate steps? In Our house, there are a couple of steps up or down for each room. I would love one.

We just got an Eufy and as we're mid kitchen renovation, had limited her to the lounge. Came home one day to find her happily pootling about in the kitchen... Think the cats must have managed to turn her on. She'd navigated all sorts, been under the cupboards (no kick boards), gone across 5 different surfaces... Can't wait for her to put her to work properly!

I'm just thinking of the YouTuber whose Roomba spread dog shit all over the living room floor.

Have the Roborock that hoovers and mops. Takes himself back to recharge and empty. Then when mopping takes himself back to “wash the mop” before tootling off again. The only problem I find is when there’s a lot of dog hair it can get clogged and leave lumps of hair at the edges of rugs. My own fault though as he’s fine when I sort it.

I have a Eufy mop and vac and Amtico flooring no issues at all. It wasnt particularly cheap, but it does a good job.

@Clefable Would you mind sharing the make / model that you have please ?

Im considering getting one , I’m too busy to be doing lawns !

thx

Loom bands were once the bane of my life - this too shall pass (edited as not OP! Sorry!)

I have a Eufy, had it a few years and agree it’s amazing.

They are talked about and promotions on MN quite a bit OP (as are electric throws, also amazing!).

I don’t have a mop function though - good to know its effective and probably will get one when this one needs to be replaced.

Shame they don’t do corners but you can’t have everything!

Ours "Yoof" doesn't deal with loom band well 😆 seems to pick them up and then scatter them elsewhere! Forever moaning DD to not drop them on the floor, bloody things

Yeah, I would never set ours to go at a set timw everyday - too dangerous with mess or clutter. But it 100% is a game changer over all.

Re the poster who asked about costs - the more high tech and powerful it is, the more expensive. We have hard floors and a no mop version so a relatively inexpensive eufy at around £160 (on sale) has been brilliant. And at that cost, wr got twice the sucking power of the one we had before which had cost twice the price. So go for the most expensive you can afford, but you will still get a great option as yhe base line technology has advanced so much over the last few years.

Question re the mapping - mine doesn't map but I am trying with upgrading to a vacuum ans mop version. What happens if, for example, it maps the room but you have moved the furniture? Eg I work in the dining area and the table has yo be slightly moved to accommodate my computer ans screens. Would the mapping be OK with these sort of changes?

Oh I miss my Neato! It was fab, have a Rumba now and it was very expensive and really not as good at all. It does empty itself and does mop though. But the Neato had such good suction it was brilliant with dog hair. I was gutted when they stopped making them.

Apologies i have not RTFT just a warning for any dog owners, I remember vividly the video of the dog having a poop at night and the robohoover spreading it EVERYWEAR whilst it did its overnight hoover but apart from that yes I would love to be able to afford one!

We have Bumble who generally does a grand job between different surfaces, under chairs, beds etc manages not to fall down the stairs, & clears dust, fluff & hair from corners..we have a long haired GSD & this makes life so much easier. Yes, I have to lift the odd cable & we have a stuffed parrot & whale shoved under the tv cabinet while hes on patrol as its just too tight for him to get fully under. He docks under our dogs bed & I love hearing his little beeps as he orientates himself to trundle home & 'go to bed' 😆 Yes I still do a deep vacuum regularly & the skirtings etc but for day to day he's brilliant as he pootles while I'm working or while I'm out. He also mops which I hate doing.

They can't do those things, you do still need to have a proper hoover sometimes but it has made by busy life a lot more bare able. Instead of walking over crumbs and sticking to the floor and then having fix that at 9 o'clock at night my eufy gives it a good enough surface clean for me to be able to ignore cleaning the floors, I probably get the proper hoover and mop out once a month for a deep clean.

Not worth the inconvenience of having to lift all dining chairs, bar stools, small tables, poangs etc off the floor so it doesn't get stuck. 🙄

I have the eufy x10 it vacuums and mops and does a real good job. Especially the mop

Do these work with having kids? I have pretty much given up with hoovering in general and sweep the floors (mainly hard floors). My Dd's seem to always manage to scatter hair bobbles across the floor, bits of cut off paper from craft projects and lots of random other bits. I can imagine a robot vacuum would end up broken trying to suck this stuff up. Maybe I have particularly messy children 🤦.

It is on my to do list. I’d love one.

You swore off cats or..?

We have a dream X50 and its the best thing ever i couldnt be without it. We have a open plan white tiled floors all down stairs so its a must!

We had an eufy which we loved, so after 12 months we shelled out for a second one for upstairs. After month or so the first eufy suddenly stopped working. Just outside of warranty and eufy wanted nothing to do with it. After having a look online it looks like a common issue of them only lasting just over their warranty period. Massively dubious if you ask me. The unit powers on fine, it’s like the software was disabled or something!