To regret not getting a robot vacuum sooner

Can I ask which model do you have? as a cat fellow owner i’m looking into getting one too and looking for recommendations

I was going to say this about the dust. My DH isn't convinced by it as there do always seem to be the odd bits left on the floor.
Bit when you empty it, the dust tray speaks for itself! It's always full, like you say even if the floors and carpets don't look that bad.

I have a Eufy and personally I think it's better on carpet than hard floors. But I have a handheld Dyson that I can easily do a quick whizz round with for the odd crumbs.

It's one of the best things I've bought, well worth the £160 I think I paid! Doesn't beat my dishwasher or ninja air fryer as favourite appliance though 😆

I ordered one earlier today and this thread has made me excited I did! I've gone for an irobot rumba 505 that mops and vacs. The black one was £700 and the white was £350 so seem too good a bargain to miss!!

Love mine.

I hate hoovering so it's great for a basic daily clean & then I do a proper going over now and then.

Just means crumbs and dirt never really build up. Wouldn't be without it now.

I bought one but soon got rid of the damn thing. It seemed to wander around aimlessly missing bits, well, a lot to be honest. It ate any cables I hadn’t hid well enough, and got stuck under the sofa endlessly. Plus my cats were scared of it . It had to go !!

DH does a weekly big vacuum and we use our Eufy in between .
I bloody love it
The amount of dust and bits it collects is astonishing -even when the floors and rugs look clean

I usually run mine when Im in the bath, rarely gets stuck as we keep it tidy and I just pull the dining chairs out

Lovely to come down to a clean house

Edit
I dont have steps so its not an issue

especially if you have a clever cat who's learned to switch it on himself

We love ours, DS calls him Lenny 😂

I’ve vacuumed twice a day for the last 16 years

Sorry but that's massive overkill. Unless you're liberally pouring crumbs on the floor and all through the house at every meal, once every few days is more than adequate, even with dogs or cats.

Hi I have, and it has mopped & vacced my LVT kitchen, hallway and bathroom floors over 12 months now - no issues.
Also vacs the carpeted floors well.

It’s a roborock it goes back to its base to empty and clean itself, frequently.
I have a medium sized dog, and although her paws are wiped, the floor still gets dirty quickly from the muddy garden this time of the year. So not having to mop myself multiple times, is a game changer.

We have a roborock qrevo and the downsides are that it's stupid and tries to kill itself 😂

It will get caught up on cables, even though we have its detection settings on sensitive.

The mop isn't that great honestly, not very impressive but it's ok.

The worst thing is that it's slow! Admittedly our house is pretty large but it takes forever!

(I'd be careful of the new Eufys though guys. They have ozone cleaners. Could be fine but it might not be and I'd rather not chance it)

I'm a weirdo who finds vacuuming really satisfying so would never get one - I'd also have panics about the cat vomiting on the floor and me coming home to it smeared all over the carpet 😂

Which one do you have? Wondering about replacing my hoovering-only Roomba...

I don't agree about the pets - I have 2 long-haired cats and it's made a massive difference to the amount of cat hair floating arond, and given the amount of crap I empty out of the thing it's definitely picking up a lot more than little crumbs (I have a far from pristine house)

I have it mop once a day - and the water is always filthy - to the extent I've considered letting it run continuously to see how long it would take until the water was clean coming out.

I hadn't replaced mine when it died recently (it was nearly 10 years old!) but I did about a month ago with a mopping one and it's fantastic (although not as good at the edges as the old one, but I'll take that exchange for the mopping and being able to control it remotely from my phone.

In fact, I'm planning to get another one for upstairs - which will leave me with only the stairs to do myself.

If only they could work out a mini one that I could have on the kitchen side so I never had to wipe the counters that would me a fair whack of basic housework covered!

Our robot lawn mower is the best, it’s one of the best things we’ve bought. He’s about to go into his fourth cutting season!

When I had a garden, not only did I have a robot hoover, I also had a robot lawn mower. So on a work morning, I could walk the dogs safe in the knowledge that my house was being hoovered and the grass was being cut.

Do they not get stuck/caught under furniture etc? I assumed they are more suited to a very open plan apartment, than a multi room house? Our is open plan in bits, but mixture of tiles and rugs. I always thought it wouldn't do a thorough job, and need emptied too often?

I love mine so much. We put googly eyes on him which brings me no end of joy watching him go around the house

I don't like mine. I live in a split-level house with two lots of stairs. The battery doesn't last long enough for 2 levels even, and it doesn't pick up that well tbh. It has a mop function which I used once because it was rubbish.

Has anyone used a robot vacuum and mop on an LVT floor? I would love the idea of this but I’m worried the mop function will damage it.

Why is the gray one of those so much more expensive than the white one? Which one do you have?

Thanks !

I regret giving my robot vacuum/mopper to my DS and DIL. I suspect DIL has probably sold it.

I’m stunned by how many people vacuum the entire house twice a day. 😳

I have pets and I hoover about once a week (if that), and things don’t ever get all that furry in the meantime.

I’d probably do it more if I had a robot, I think, but as pps have said, I can’t understand how a round hoover with no little fiddly suction attachments would get around chair legs and all the corners and nooks and crannies. I’d still have to do a proper hoover once a week, which is as much as I can be arsed hoovering anyway.