To regret not getting a robot vacuum sooner

[JudesBiggestFan]

Oh my days. What a game changer! Bought it on Wednesday and the joy of seeing him pootling about, vacuuming and mopping my floors while I get in with other things! I have three kids and I think I’ve vacuumed twice a day for the last 16 years. Hours of my life back. And it does a great job too. Am I alone in my new obsession?

What are the downsides,

We had a Eufy which was good on wooden floors (though would often get itself stuck) but I wouldn't have it near any carpeted areas. If there is a slight end of a carpet thread, it will find it and pull it, and keeping pulling it...

I came upstairs to find it had gone side to side repeatedly down one side of the bedroom with a thread of carpet and there was an inch wide gap between the carpet and the wall!

It's now in the garage and I use the Dyson!

@JudesBiggestFan you are only being unreasonable if you haven’t given him a human name.

I hoover every day, sometimes twice a day!
Theres just 2 adults who live here and we both work most days.
Somedays I’ll hoover when I get up and then when we get home from work, I’ve got a 3 bedroom house and it only takes a matter of minutes to do the whole house

What an ozone cleaner?

Does it really negate the object though? If it’s that or continuing to hoover manually all the time?

Yep.

We've got 3 robots.

Moppy, who does our downstairs daily as it's mostly floor so he vacuums and mops (a Eufy).

Vaccy - a Eufy vacuum who sorts the upstairs outside daily as it's mostly carpet.

Snippy - robot lawnmower!

Goals!!

Im so tempted to get a dual mop/ vacuum one for downstairs so the vacuum one can live upstairs, which model do you have?

DH loves mowing the lawn but if he annoys me...

Omni X10 pro, or a slightly older version of it. We splashed out quite a bit for it, but my god it's been worth it.

We have schedules set up so each day it does something slightly different. For example a couple of times a week we get him to do 'edge hugging' mopping. Other days he just does the main traffic areas. I set this up ages ago so he automatically runs the schedules each day

He actually goes twice a day thinking about it, but just hoovers up first thing on a morning.

I have to say the novelty wore off a bit over time, but probably partially because my house is quite untidy so I have to clean before I turn him on lol

I bought a basic Eufy in the Black Friday sales, bit of an impulse but oh what a gamechanger! My only regret is not buying a higher spec.

So glad to hear that others have named theirs and attached googly eyes. Robert isn’t perfect, he will miss areas (the cheaper ones don’t map the area, they use sensors) but he cleans every day, something I’m never going to do. The amount of dust and fluff picked up every day is astonishing.

Yes, you need to lift phone chargers or cables out of the way. No, he doesn’t vacuum under the sofa cushions or lift the rugs - but he does go right under the sofa. I don’t have to do anything except click the little dust container out and empty it. I still use my Shark once a week for a ‘proper’ clean,

Because I have cats (one long-haired) I don’t programme him to clean automatically, I like to check for feline bodily emissions and dead mice first. My cats don’t ride him, disappointingly, but they are much less scared of him than of the big vacuum. If I can afford it I’ll upgrade next year to one with the ability to map the route rather than just avoid obstacles.

But why ?

If you have vacuumed before you leave for work, wtf would you then vacuum when you return from work ?
You've not even been there.

@JudesBiggestFan LOLOL 😝. Mine just vacs and we don’t really use it much. When it gets stuck under the sofa or bed it keeps talking until the battery runs out. Our dishwasher also plays music to us and I just love it. Maybe we’d use it more if it mopped?

Do people use these as their only vacuum? I’ve found them to be awful on carpets, there is just not enough power for a good clean?

We have an eufy that vacs and mops. He's ok but doesn't collect much dust so the dirt ends up getting pushed around by the mopping action. Previous ones we've had have collected plenty of dust, so I think this must be a fault with this model.

I don't think they'd be good as an only vacuum. I run the proper vacuum around once a week to get into the corners properly.

Ours is in the bedroom.
I wafts about , gets stuck, leaves DH sock fluff on the carpet (black fluff) and fluff from my slipper socks ( red fluff) , declares it is finished and trots back to the charger .

And it vacuumed up a pile of cat vomit under the bed ( luckily dry biscuit) which I had to brush up as I didn't want my other vacuum getting clogged up with it , and clean the bloody robot vac.

I vacuum on a Friday , this thing shoofties round with bugger all to pick up and still makes a rubbish job of it

Shark Stratos is far far superior .

Hilarious

Our FemaleCat glares at it but it doesn't phase her . MaleCat screams if a moth farts .

Do it. You lift everything liftable, leave it for 20 minutes, then move everything a bit and leave it for another half hour or so, so that it has had time to get behind everything.

I love mine, I'm on my third and wouldn't be without one. The current is a Eufy and it's the best I've had, also the cheapest. Away with the bloody drudgery of lugging the Miele about. That's down to once a month, max, because I have stairs. I tell all my friends to get one, it's just bliss not to have to do vacuuming.

PS: I've got a cat but he doesn't ride on it, he just ignores it unless it bumps into him, when he'll move.

Honestly, I would sellotape them to it until they get the idea 😄💗

I don’t get it! I thought it would be the answer to my prayers, but in the end it’s easier just to whip out the Miele. I sold my Eufy robot vacuum within days. The love is lost on me!

We have fallen out of love with Svetlana, our old Eufy. Not sure I can be bothered getting another one because our ground floor has steps. We had her for 5 years and it’s probably night time she retired.

I’ve been looking in and off for ages but you’ve tempted me ….. I’ve just ordered one!

Love mine. I have three that do different areas. We have a lot of animals and it always picks up more than you think

Next time I’ll get one with a bin that empties itself