To ask if your robot hoover or hoover-mop works?

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We are a busy (read messy!) household with kids and really busy work lives. I’m keen to look for ways to keep things ticking over.

Do the robot hoovers work? What happens if it encounters a toy/sock/piece of lego? (Yes, yes I know… but real life here, this will happen at some point!).

What about the mop function?

What make do you have?

If you have a picture perfect, tidy at all times home please scroll by because sadly this won’t be the lived reality for our new pet robot 😁

Watching this with interest! DH is against them as he can't see the time saving if they only do one floor and not the stairs - but I'm assuming they are portable?

There's also some worry robo vac might terrify our mature, nervous rescue cat, don't know if any pet owners can advise?

But these all sound like positive experiences, also I kinda just want a wee robo pal lol😍

Im interested to can anyone advise for a household of females with long hair im currently using a shark with anti wrap technology which works brilliantly but am interested in a robot hoover that can handle hair

Our dog is terrified of the robot - goes outside when it starts. He stood in front of it once and got his paw in the way and he’s never forgiven it!

We have a shark ninja, she's pretty good at vaccuming but I haven't tried the mop yet. She can handle some rugs but she gets stuck in the super fluffy one so I have to turn the edges up so she can't get on.

They are great as long as you have a flat floor, ie no steps up or drop downs into other rooms. All wires must be tied up and off the floor. Do measure the gaps under sofas and bookcases to make sure it can get underneath (if necessary).

We very recently bought a Eufy and it has been life changing. It trundles about mopping and hoovering every day. We have vinyl planks throughout and rugs. We had no idea that two adults and two cats could create so much dirt!

We thought long and hard about getting one because it is a big outlay. We bought this one:

https://amzn.eu/d/06MRHgo8

Oh dear your poor dog!

We have a eufy one. We did the research and spent the money buts its been so worth it. We have a large open plan hardfloor hall, living, dining & lounge area. Pre-eufy I felt like I was either always hoovering/mopping, stressed that the kids were coming in muddy when it was clean or knowing I needed to hoover & mop. Now I just set it off first thing in the morning whilst I'm on school run. I dont think I'm being dramatic when i say that it makes me feel I'm winning at life when I have a clean kitchen floor. Get one!

@DopamineDeficient the mop is good I find, I always hoover first though!

We have a Roomba. It avoids socks, etc. Sometimes gets stuck on trailing wires or tight spaces where we've left chairs near the wall or the like. It's pretty good but it's not a powerful suction so on carpet you still need to vac with a handheld from time to time (we often leave it a month, which is probably too long).

I think the Roomba is good, but my understanding is that there are better out there nowadays.

I love mine, we use a tapo as it links in with our security cameras but it does have its downfalls

Ours hovers and mops
Copes quite well with corners in general small items like Lego either get moved around the floor if it's a larger piece or hovered up
I do the edges of the rooms every other day and tend to do a deep clean eg move the sofa once a week but that's because I have 2 dogs that shed like it's an Olympic sport as well as 2 cats and 2 dc so the poor hoover really does well all things considered

If it encounters a sock it eats it and just switches off same if the dogs pinch a loo roll tube and leave it chewed up on the floor it will try to hoover up a large piece and just stop

I have a step in my home so we built it a ramp and we put that out so it can go everywhere
I love not having to faff when I need to hoover under beds!

Ours can map rooms so you set it off to do specific areas and it'll only do where you ask it to, also love being able to set it off on my lunch break and come back to a clean room

We have a shark one and it’s great for maintenance, it goes off every day and keeps on top of pet hair etc. It switches between hoovering and mopping. We still have to do a deep clean once a week. If it’s something big on the floor (like the cat) it will go round it but hair ties, wires it just eats which is annoying. It also doesn’t cope well with mats. We have also had one horror movie episode where it pushed around a dead mouse so it was smeared round the entire house.

You can set the Roborock with different maps so once a week I carry it to the top of the stairs and set it going. It copes well with long hair in our house (me + 2DD)!
I don’t worry about the kids being in and out of the garden now as I know all the grass/muddy footprints will be gone the next morning.

I already posted up thread. We have a poodle X who doesn't moult, but its my hair that gets everywhere! DH looks after our eufy. We've had it 2yrs and I've never heard him mention my hair- until just now when I asked him and he said he cleans it out all the time! Today he also cleaned out the henry brush and did moan and point out my hair without me asking, so I do wonder how much of an issue the hair in the eufy is! 🤔

I have a roborock hoover mop with full station. It was nearly 1k and is pretty good. It is supposed to recognise dog poo etc but it didn't once and that was an unpleasant clean up experience but other than that, it's fine. Like a PP said, it doesn't always do the edges great and you do need to do the floors properly sometimes but it's great for keeping on top of things. Also, you need to keep the floors clear because it will get stuck on cables, socks etc.

Thankyou I appreciate that

I have the same and happy with it. I also try clear up the floors before I leave the house; my kid loves magnetic tiles and once I left his intricate build on the floor thinking the eufy will go around. It didn’t, bulldozed the build, went over it and carried on.
if it gets stuck on something it stops and I get a notification. It restarts once I fix whatever is stuck (has happened once only)
ive heard (and people with pets can chime in if its true- I haven’t RTFT) that if you have pets and a pet commits or poops, the vacuum will smear it all over the house.

We have been through a few of them, cheap one from Aldi about 10 years ago (was only £150 and was fab), then another I can't remember the name of, lasted a few years, then the Roomba, didn't last a year was shite and loud and the unit it lived in for huge, it kept breaking so was returned. Currently have had a Narwhal for about a year, it can either just vac or can mop too. It seems pretty good so far and it's the quietest of all that we have had.

Any of then will get stuck by socks etc.

We've got the eufy hoover and mop. Its the one that has the self cleaning and drying mop. This means that is doesn't leave streaks and the mop head doesnt smell as its always clean and dry.

We wouldn't be without it now. Our entire downstairs gets hovered and mopped every morning before we get up and it makes such a massive difference.

We upgraded from just a robot hoover and would now never go back.

But wait for the next prime day as they are much cheaper then.

I bought a Vexilar which hoovers and mops. Unfortunately it just can’t cope with the amount of dog fur and just gets blocked all the time. The mop head kept getting folded over and didn’t do a good job. Then it forgot pre-programmed maps and got lost. Overall it looks like our dogs are too much for it!

I have two vacuum and mop robots, ECOVACS DEEBOT X8 PRO OMNI, and a Switchbot S20. I marginally prefer the EcoVac.

I schedule them to run the early hours, so I pick up any obstacles before going to bed. If they were let loose with sock and cables everywhere they would probably be more hassle than they are worth.

You might find it manageable in one area first, if you're able to use it as I do.

I’ve got a Tapo vac/mop. We do move things out of the way on the nights it runs as it tends to get stuck if we do (for example we put the dining chairs upside down on the table). It does a decent moping job (engineered wood floors) which was our main reason for getting it as I hate mopping.

Also got the eufy omni X10 and it does a pretty good job, though I am going to try the drop of Milton in the dirty water tank as despite near daily use this smells rank when emptying.
It’s pretty good at avoiding objects such as cables or shoes, but would pick up small stuff like Lego.

I have two iRobot roombas (one on each floor) and I've given up on them... You have to remove all obstacles and put chairs up (or it will get stuck between them). It will suck up plants, skin charger cables. Honestly the prep alone was so long I'm better off hoovering quickly with a cordless Dyson. I regret buying those roombas

We have the same one and find it pretty good. We have teens not small kids but they leave a fair amount of bags and shoes and hair ties etc around. We have a big floofy shedding dog too.

It never gets stuck and it just goes around the crap left on the floor but if there is too much obviously that means the cleaning is not so good. I programmed it at night (our dog doesn’t care) and put all the chairs up and bags and crap off the floor last thing at night so it can do its job well.

The hoover suction isn’t as good as the Shark we also have and it can’t manage skirting boards and stairs and stuff so we have to do a big hoover at weekends for those but it keeps on top of the day to day dog hair and kitchen mess very well

I would say it would hoover up a Lego brick as it hoovers the dogs kibble which is that size. It has only ever had an issue with hair ties, ribbons and bag straps which get tangled in the roller but mostly it does a good job.

I have a dreame one and it’s great