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Do you have a Roomba or similar?

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Bridecilla · 04/08/2020 09:19

and would you recommend it?

Sweeping floors is my most hated job. We've got wooden floors all downstairs but also all the usual crap - beanbag, thick rug, dining table and chairs. Will it navigate those?

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Trashtara · 04/08/2020 10:29

We have a eufy. I absolutely love it. Was thinking this morning that I cannot remember the last time I hoovered down stairs.

It does better on hard floors than carpet. It negotiates our rug very well, occasionally gets stuck under the dining table - if you pull out a dining chair it makes it easier for it. I after the first week (when i needed emptying daily)I only empty it every 3/4 days.

You have to run it daily or it doesn't work properly - it needs to maintain, not do a deep clean.

Endlessmizzle · 04/08/2020 10:33

Can I ask about room as - I bought one but it says you need to have 2m of wall with nothing on it (a meter clear on each side of the socket). I don’t have this (few people I know do! Or if they do it’s in a really bad place for the docking station). How do you do this or do you all live in huge minimalist mansions?

Trashtara · 04/08/2020 10:41

@Endlessmizzle ours lives under our sofa, which is on 4 legs. So there is 1 meter either side of the docking station but the wall isn't completely unused. If we didn't have space under our sofa it would be much harder.

The alternative is to just put it back on it's docking station manually, which we have to do about once a week anyway as it can sometimes find it difficult navigating its way home (we live in a long house, docking station would ideally be in the middle room, but it isn't, it's in the front room as that is where we have space).

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Bridecilla · 04/08/2020 13:43

Our sofas are on legs so it could live under 1 of them!

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Juiceey · 04/08/2020 13:44

I REALLY want one- keep looking at a £149 Eufy on amazon- wondering if such a cheap one is any good.

BurnIt · 04/08/2020 13:49

I bought a Cordy. He's called Arnie (Robovac) and I love him. The goise is so much tidied as you have to be careful not to leave anything he can choke on, and no hoovering! Before I was sweeping downstairs 3 times a day. Its brilliant. I can set him to mop too but obviously not as good as just doing it yourself

BurnIt · 04/08/2020 13:50

Oh and Arnie lives under our tall sideboard

Trashtara · 04/08/2020 13:51

Juiceey we have the cheapest eufy I think- was £116 on an Amazon lightening deal. Can't remember the model.

The more expensive ones have more features and in the future we'll likely get one that maps the room rather than going randomly, but I can't fault it.

Trashtara · 04/08/2020 13:52

Oh yes, you have to leave the floor tidy. Got me back in to good habits. It will eat hair bobbles, hair clips, necklaces etc. It chokes on shoe laces and phone chargers and you have you help it.

DottyDotAgain · 04/08/2020 13:56

I got an Eufy a few weeks ago and it's bloody wonderful! With two cats, two teenagers and two parents in the house, our floors are now so flipping clean - I'm actually horrified at how much crap it picks up each night (it's programmed to go round at 9pm every day!) - it's completely mortifying that all that cat hair and dust was there all the time!

The floors look tons better and it's making us pick things up off the floor each day - put shoes away etc. - which is no bad thing!

DottyDotAgain · 04/08/2020 13:57

and yes it navigates furniture and can manage rugs. We don't have 2m space where it docks - probably a metre - and it manages to get itself home and docked without a problem.

Franticbutterfly · 04/08/2020 13:57

We have a Eufy. Really recommend It to anyone who has non carpeted floors.

Rainingallweek · 04/08/2020 13:59

I have a Roomba and a Braava. Both do their jobs very well and live just under the stairs so definitely not the recommended space.

Also disgusted at how much crap they pick up despite regular hoovering.

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Bridecilla · 04/08/2020 13:59

I'm sold - there's a few different ones on Amazon. Any recommendations on model?

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TreestumpsAndTrampolines · 04/08/2020 14:04

We've got a cheap Eufy too - does pretty well for something that just randomly walks the room with the occasional edge hug.

Once you're in love with the hoover, if you have a garden, you might also want to look into robot mowers.... we got one a couple of months ago and it's bloody brilliant (after some pain getting the boundary and guide-wires all set up and connected that is) - back and front look like a golf-course, with absolutely no further effort beyond changing the blades every couple of months!

fascinated · 04/08/2020 14:09

We don’t Run it regularly and it is fine

It can’t dock itself. But I just put. It manually back which is. Fine

Trashtara · 04/08/2020 14:12

you have a garden, you might also want to look into robot mowers

DH is desperate for one.

Champagneforeveryone · 04/08/2020 14:56

We have a Eufy, he's called "The Dogs of War" ("Alexa, release the dogs of war" )

We're all hard floors downstairs and like a PP, I'm horrified at the shite he collects on a daily basis. And talking of shite, after seeing the terrifying photos on the internet we only ever release him when we're there to check the floors first!

Juiceey · 05/08/2020 13:25

Are they good for carpets though?

CointreauVersial · 05/08/2020 13:29

I'm desperate for one, but we have a big step which cuts our downstairs in half. I guess I'd need two? It's a bungalow, so big footprint.

Also, I presume, if you leave a door open (e.g. bedroom) it will go in? It wouldn't last five minutes faced with DD2's floordrobe.

TreestumpsAndTrampolines · 05/08/2020 13:36

Are they good for carpets though?

Ours was OK on normal/medium pile rugs when we had them (although not tassels.. it ate tassels until it was stuck). It's determined to have a go at my deep pile ikea rug in my office though, and invariably gets 1.5 metres onto it then yells to be rescued.

And yes, it wanders into anywhere left open (some of them you can set some kind of virtual barrier up, but I've long lost the manual for mine, so I don't know if you can on the cheap ones). A previous one would make a beeline for the bathroom, and get stuck on the shower curtain the moment my back was turned.

LadyCatStark · 05/08/2020 13:59

Do they try to go downstairs?

Champagneforeveryone · 05/08/2020 14:46

Ours doesn't go downstairs as he has a "drop sensor" (I know this as I got a plaintive text yesterday telling me his drop sensors were dirty)

You can either close doors or he came with a strip of sticky stuff that you can put over doorways etc to keep him out. Not sure what it is as we didn't use it!

Trashtara · 05/08/2020 14:58

@LadyCatStark

Do they try to go downstairs?

Ours doesn't. We occasionally put ours on the landing and it'll teeter over the edge of the stairs then reverse. They have sensors that detect how far the drop below them is which allows them to go off the edge of a rug, but not fall down stairs.

Feralkidsatthecampsite · 05/08/2020 15:00

We have this.
Navigates all corners and every crumb..

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