Robot vacuum cleaner

[WokingOrNot]

I am moving to a bungalow and with an active toddler considering buying a robot vacuum that we can put on while he's in a nursery. But is it worth it? What model would you recommend? Our budget probably £500-600 max.

[Gottoomuchgoingon]

I paid about £30 for mine from a deals site. It's fine.

[TheRoadToRuin]

Loads of threads on this.
I have had a eufy and a bagotte. The Bagotte is better because it maps the room and doesn't miss bits, whereas the Eufy trundles round randomly. Eufy has a better battery though.
The size of house domatter because you can just do a room at a time. You have to move cables and they can get stuck. Some people find them a bit needy but you get used to their capabilities.

[devonianBiatch]

I got a deenkee from Amazon. Love the dramatic little Arsehole with his death beep/ cries. I go running to him in a panic and it's a sweet wrapper stuck in his brush or got wedged under something. It's NEVER as bad as his beeps for help make it sound.

I've attached a Pic of him having a nap. Say hi to Sir Sweepsalot

[Stealhsquirrelnutkin]

I'm on my third robot vacuum, if anything happens to it I'll order a replacement immediately. It makes a massive difference, especially in hay fever season.
My first was a roomba, replaced by a Eufy 30C which cleaned very well so long as you didn't watch it miss the same crumb several times, because it didn't map the room and clean in an easy to understand pattern. It would get the crumb eventually, but watching was painful, and I'd crack and grab the remote control to reverse it over the offending crumb.

This latest one is a Eufy G30 which does have a more intelligent mapping system. When it dies I hope to replace it with something like the version of the Roboroc that has a sonic cleaning system so it mops and vacuums.

I did have a mopping robot, a few years ago, but the tanks had to be emptied/filled and the moping cloths changed, so you couldn't just set it to come on by itself and work without supervision, and it still didn't clean very well. The roboroc seems to be getting good reviews and by the time I am in the market for one it will have an automated docking system to empty and fill the mop tank.

www.smart-home-fox.co.uk/roborock-s7-review

[LunaLoveFood]

I have a neato and love him. He copes really well with dog hair, carpet wooden floors and tiles. Would definitely recommend.

[FloydPepper]

Roomba here. I’d recommend and would replace if it (he?) broke. Not quite as good as a proper hoover round by haa was no but brilli For just keeping on top of it regularly

[endoflevelbaddy]

I've got 2. Had a Deebot for a couple of years but it started having issues with the brightness in the open plan kitchen / dinner / conservatory and kept sending out out distress signals thinking it was trapped 🙄
Bought a Eufy to replace it & relegated the Deebot to at a darker part of the house. I very rarely get the actual vac out now, I run them daily and they're just fab. 2 kids, 2 dogs & a cat to clean up after and they cope.

[Theoldwoman]

Absolutely worth it imo!

I have had a couple over the years, currently a Samsung. It goes on twice a day, sometimes three times, every day. It's part of the family.

[compsci]

Get one which mops and hoovers at the same time or separately (your choice). The Roborock S7 with auto-empty dock is great and now more widely available in UK than it used to be when I got mine.

[MissFritton65]

I got a Dreame one with a mop function from Amazon and it's fantastic!

[WokingOrNot]

Thanks! Love the idea of mopping too