Robot hoover - would it work in our house?

[lebkuchenforxmas]

I normally keep on top of things by hoovering downstairs daily and closing my eyes upstairs between the cleaner's weekly visits but being laid low with Covid for a week has led to me longing for a robot hoover.
The reason I haven't got one before now:

• upstairs - carpeted - three bedrooms are the same height as the landing but you go down a step into each of the other two bedrooms. Would RoboHoov just tumble down the step and stay stranded until I rescue her? If I set her off in one of the down-the-step rooms would she just trundle around and around in circles until she ran out of charge or would she go around once and then stop?
• downstairs - wooden flooring - would she scratch it? Again, what would happen about the rooms being on different levels? Could she manage to rug (which the cat loves to nap on) or would that be too much of a climb?

Hi I think it will depend on what model you go for. I have a Eufy s11 (cheapest one as I wasn't convinced at first!). Mine had a setting for a single room so in your case I'd pop it in bedroom 1 shut the door and let it crack on and when it beeps to tell me it's done I'd move it to the next room. It won't go down stairs / off a step as it has sensors to detect the drop. Again with the landing part I'd pop him on the landing and shut the bedroom doors.

I don't have wooden flooring but do have tiles no issues with scratching and I can't imagine you would with wood either. With the levels unless it's a drop or high edge the robot should manage it fine. Yes they can manage rugs I have one in a carpeted room and it's fine.

Hope that helps! I wouldn't be without mine now .

I have an odd levelled house and I set mine to daily clean the "flatter" and most used areas: lounge (wooden floor & mats), kitchen (tiled) & bathroom (tiled). So all of those have been done before I even get up.

Then if I remember later in the day I put him in the hall and he does bedrooms too, but I often forget and am not concerned as the main areas have been done IYSWIM.

With some other odd areas, I just pop him in weekly and let him go until I remember to stop him (normally 15 mins over a 3m x 3m area). So those areas get a very thorough clean weekly.
No issues with scratching the floor. I LOVE him (yes, it is a he).

If he stopped working, I would get another one immediately.

They have sensors to stop them from falling off steps etc. They work less well on really dark carpets, but won’t scratch your floors. I love love love mine.

They have a drop sensor so won't go down the step into the other bedrooms but you could move the robot to do those bedrooms. Depending on the model the either bounce around until they run out of battery or they have a mapping function (more expensive ones) to do the room more logically. Normally would manage the rug but if it's got tassels it'll try and eat them until it gets stuck. Some of them have apps that you can set areas to avoid ie the rug tassels or have magnetic strips that you put down that they won't cross.

I have an Eufy 11s as well . He does my ground floor at night- tiles carpet and rugs. I do the upstairs separately - with Eufy- maybe on a weekly basis. Occasionally he has got trapped behind a door and just keeps going until he runs out of power. If he broke I’d replace him. He is my second as the first one was replaced under warranty. Worth every penny!