Tell me about robot vacuum cleaners...

[Darington]

I'm tempted by these but have questions!

1. Roomba or Eufy?
2. Can it move from hard floor to rug on its own?
3. How does it know where to go?
4. Would you recommend it?

Our living room looks like a crumb carpet by the end of each day now the kids are at home and I think this could be the solution but it all sounds a bit space age and I wonder if they're actually effective? Tia!

I love my roomba, have had it about 6 years now. It isn’t a fancy model but does a great job, even if it sometimes seems to be going round in circles! It deals well with rugs unless they have tasselled ends, which can get caught up.

I have had my Euffy for about 6 months.
I love him ! He goes from tiles to carpet to lino with no problem .
It's only a basic model so he can only be programmed to come on once a day and vac everywhere.
I can make it spot clean too . ( some can be programmed to do just one room )

It's very easy to empty .
You need to make sure there is nothing on the floor he can eat like shoe laces , head phones

If he died I would buy another one with my next pay packet

I'm tempted by the Eufy just cos of the price point...

...and all of those things!

Swear by my Neato D5. We had a Roomba before which died, and the D shape is far better for cleaning corners than the round one. It wanders around the rooms randomly until it knows the layout, and can adapt to things being moved around within the room/left out on the floor without bother. I run it at 2am and it takes about 90 minutes to do the ground floor, has no trouble going between kitchen and carpet, and goes and parks itself for a recharge if needed. It needs emptying daily but four cats...

Oh god, I hate mine. It's currently tangled up in a phone charge under my sofa and I can't be arsed to unleash it again. DH has it set on a schedule and if I forget when that is and have stuff left out on the floor it gets mangled.

It's also attempted suicide a few times on the stairs despite having the strip which is supposed to stop it. Hoping one day it will go the full nine yards and die. But DH loves it so...

1. I have Eufy 15C Max, but have heard plenty of good things about Roomba.
2. Yes, we have LVT and rugs with diff pile depths, it goes over all of them no problem. The only thing it's struggled with was one rug with long tassels, I've knotted the tassels to shorten them and that is no longer a problem.
3. It goes around at random but there is a spot setting and a edging setting. It also connects to your phone by WiFi and you can direct it using arrows on the app. It also has a remote control you can use to steer it.
4. I'd definitely recommend it. It has saved my sanity during lockdown with a 2 year old dropping crumbs everywhere. It also encourages you to keep clutter, such as shoes, off the floor as he might suck the laces up and get stuck.

I still do a big Hoover once a week but I would say the Eufy picks up 60/70% of the dirt and dust.

Sorry I should of said mine is a Euffy 11 and cost about £170

You do need to make sure wires etc are out of the way but it becomes second nature to keep stuff out of its way , ( tuck laces into shoes as soon as you take them off etc )

I do think mine is a vampire tho , if the sun is bright like today and is shining through the bedroom window Eufy wont go into the sun cos he is scared of it or its something to do with his sensors

There are quite a few threads on here about them ( I am on a lot of them ! )

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3812910-Are-robotic-vacuum-cleaners-worth-it?pg=1

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/3789013-Please-recommend-a-robovac?msgid=92983727

Hated mine, had to get DH to take it to his office instead. It doesn’t do the corners of the room, gets tangled up. If you have kids and they’ve dropped something wet it just spreads it.
Loud and annoying and took so much longer to clean a room than it would have been to just have a quick hoover yourself.

Also they have a camera on them to allow them to see the room, I didn’t like the thought of that.