Does anyone have a robotic vacuum cleaner?

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I would be interested to hear views from Mums netters on this. We recently visited a "stately home" which had robotic lawnmowers keeping the grass cut short.

It set me thinking that although our garden is not big enough to justify this expenditure, a robotic vacuum cleaner might be affordable.

It's just so nice to not always look at the floor and think 'oh god I've got to drag the hoover out again!'
And if there's something spilt (not liquid) I can just drive him over to clean that particular spot.

There is a YouTube clip where A guy left his Roomba on & the dog had defecated inside

The mess he came home to was horrendous

So it’s not a perfect system

@Fluffycloudland77
So sorry to here that , it is heart breaking isnt it . I adopted a cat only a few weeks ago with very sad ending but different circumstances.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/the_litter_tray/3717320-To-take-on-a-cat-with-FIV?msgid=91289689.

I have never heard of Protectapet before but I will def look into it thankyou

@YoungHun
that is impressive ! i am def going to order a Eufy , I just need to decide which on . . . . . . ..

..>>>>> thinks for 10 seconds

I like the look of the eufy and the 30C is on offer on the website for £189.99. my question is if you have a house on lots of different level what do you do with the charging station? Move it as well into the different rooms? We have lots of steps and lots of different levels in our house

I never programmed mine to come on at set times, one morning recently I came down to find he’d done a runny poo over the edge of his tray. The mess would have been epic if the eufy had come on.

@SamBeckett That’s awful I’m so sorry.

Can you just put it in a room and set it off or does it need to have the base station near?

@Murinae I have a Eufy 11s which is a fairly basic model.
I turn it on and shut it in a room and it does 20 minutes then stops on one programme. But I think if you just turn it on, not on a specific program it just burbles around until the battery goes flat

I have a eufy 30 which can be programmed to come on the same time each day but nothing more sophisticated. I have a short-haired cat and it picks up all the hair. It's great.

Mine arrived today (a Eufy 115 MAX - I thought the extra power would be useful as we have two dogs). I've only had it on for one session, doing the living room and hall, but It. Is. AWESOME! I'm so pleased with it! - although I'm not sure how much time it's going to save me if I keep following it around cooing...

@Fluffycloudland77
I never programmed mine to come on at set times, one morning recently I came down to find he’d done a runny poo over the edge of his tray.
I read this as Eufy had done a runny poo , I had no idea I had to litter train him !

Ok Own up who has named theirs ?
Have you stuck eyes or a tail on it ?

The 30C is now £169.99 on Amazon. I’m very tempted though as I said we have lots of different levels in our house so would be limited to it’s use. All these difficult decisions Do Ingo for it or not?

My feeling is, how much would you pay a cleaner to hoover? You soon get the money back!

I bought the 30c inspired by this thread

https://www.eufylife.com/uk/referral/buy?ic=2d25249ea10e7b32754f&utmsource=share&utmmmedium=buyother&utmcontent=ukreferral

I'm shocked how much it picks up. We have one medium haired dog. Even when the floor doesn't look like there's much there it still picks up a lot.

Has anyone got the version that mops too? I think its called the L70. Would be interesting to hear if it's worth it, it's a lot more expensive.

We are losing hours to this. It's soothingly hypnotic watching it potter round, always pursued by at least one cat.

It does eat hairbands and get stuck with great regularity, but we must surely be running out of unforeseen hazards for it by now?

We are losing hours to this. It's soothingly hypnotic watching it potter round

Oh yes. I also talk to it - every time I hear it beep I rush to it saying, "Oh, dear, what have you done now?"

I've called ours Beavis. Because it sucks, dude.

Ours is Dustin.

Some of the time, anyway.

We just bought the Eufy 15c max on Friday. Amazon still has it on the cheaper price today.

Looking forward to trying it out. I was looking for a mopping one though. (I don't mind vacuuming but I hate mopping).

Due to lack of cash I have not bought one yet , to all them that bought one off the back of this thread are you happy with the one you got ?
What model is it ?
I am hoping to get one in the Jan sales

I’m at on the sofa, full of heavy cold and staring at the mess under the living room table thanks children

I know I’m getting a generous Christmas present cash from my parents this year as they recently came into some money, and I now know what I’m going to buy. This thread has been a delight and my rheumatologist will be pleased to hear I’m not lugging Henry around any more.

@doctorboo
Do you know which one you are going to get ?

@SantaBeckett I’ve got my eye on the Eufy BoostIQ RoboVac 11S (Slim)

My DH will think it’s a ridiculous waste of money but I think it’ll be useful.

@doc
The Eufy does seem to be a very popular make , I was looking at the S11 too but I dont think I need the boost as most of my floors are hard crappy thread bare carpet

If when you tell you DH you are geting one and he says its a waste of money tell him he can do all the vacing and it has to be done X amount of times a week . Id give it a month at the most before he orders one

We got one on Black Friday. It’s a Eufy imaginatively called Eufy, but it’s gender-fluid because DD wants it to be a girl and DS wants it to be a boy. I refer to it as he/she depending on which child is in the vicinity.

It was £170 but DH ordered it so I don’t know which model. It hasn’t got an app, so I think possibly the cheapest one.

We have 3 cats and they either ignore it or stalk it, depending on the time of day and how sleepy they are. It is brilliant at hoovering up cat litter and fluff. It does go round the 6 dining chairs but I find that it runs out of battery much faster doing that than if I move the chairs into another room. It can’t get up the little lip into the kitchen, but if I want it to do the kitchen I just lift it up and block the door with the bin because otherwise it goes down into the dining room and can’t get back up.

I talk to mine all the time and you’ll be pleased to know that it absorbed me kicking it extremely hard by accident without breaking. I was carrying DS at the time and didn’t see Eufy sneak out from under the table. I have a massive bruise on my toe but Eufy was completely unfazed.

I do have to empty it quite a lot and it’s pulled quite a few threads out of the v cheap Ikea rugs, but I don’t care. It’s quite good at edges/corners because it has little brushes that stick out and sweep bits in towards itself. There are places in each room that it can’t quite get into (where there is too much crap shoved into a corner) but if I can be arsed I will try to sort that at some point.

In the end, after reading comments I bought a Coredy R 650 which was on offer at Amazon for £165. (no longer selling there, don't know why).

I love it. It gets stuck on some of the furniture, mainly two laptop tables we both use regularly when watching TV. I put them on the sofa and leave it to run when we go to bed or just let it run round on a day off when no-one else is in the house.

When these first came on the market they were expensive, but now often less than the cost of a new hoover. I have still a Dyson which I keep upstairs now and do the bedrooms with. It saves lugging it upstairs. We are empty nesters so the robot may not suit families as well.

I got one around Black Friday and it is the Best Thing Ever (Eufy 30c) I live in the ME, just off the beach and there's desert on the other side so my house is a magnet for sand and dust. And I have multiple cats .
It is much better than I expected and leaves the floors looking lovely. I am impressed how it gets into corners.
I also find the noise of normal Hoovers painful so DP had to do all the hoovering while I was either hiding elsewhere or out of the house entirely. The Eufy is a much lower frequency and does not cause me upset. Did I mention it is the Best Thing Ever?