Robot vacuum cleaners.. any good?

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I've been looking at the Which website for reviews and it seems like unless you pay £500 plus they don't seem to be that good? Does anyone have a cheaper one that they are happy with?

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Best thing I have ever bought! Makes life soooo much easier!!
I have an eufy, paid about £300 3 years ago so will be cheaper now. You won't regret it!

Lucky you!

Mine’s hypochondriac catastrophist, forever claiming to be stuck on a cliff whilst being prosaically slightly jammed under a sofa or something. It has a very funereal little melody it plays for any problems. I talk to it as you might talk to an Eeyore-ish great-aunt you are fond of.

Like the great-aunt, I wouldn’t be without it. It’s an i-Robot.

@LightDrizzle 😃😃😃 does yours have a name?

Wouldn't be without mine. I've hard floor's and a large open plan space and it's brilliant. I would replace straight away if it broke.

It just a basic £200 non mapping one but it means the room is always immaculate - it goes out everyday after breakfast.

And yes, mine has a name and is man.

It doesn’t have a name beyond Roomba but it probably thinks its name is “Oh dear!”

I went for a cheaper under £200 one and it's fine for a daily sweep around but not for a proper going over, plus I must have too much awkward furniture as it gets stuck a lot!

I got a cheap random Chinese make and it out lasted my eufy. It is brilliant. Makes me tidier and I never get the big hoover out so practically feel like I never hoover.

We have a roomba, it’s about 12 years old and still going strong. Friend has an uefy, much cheaper, and she says it’s brilliant.

the roomba takes a bit of cleaning out every now and then as I have long hair that wraps round the brushes.

the floor has to be clear….and we have a cat who throws up sometimes so I don’t tend to leave it on when we are out.

Also have a robo mop that’s fine…but it takes forever and is best used often. Not such a success as the roomba.

I had one when I was married and XH hated it and made me sell it.

Since unmarrying I bought a new one for £150 recently. Bluey (has a blue light, kid named it...) responds to Alexa and keeps my floors tolerable. I love the way he bimbles around.

Still need a normal hoover for stairs etc, but until Bluey came I was NOT manually hoovering.

we love our eufy. Great on hard floors , not so good on carpet.

I have a large pale tile floor and a black dog. For this reason I was treated myself to a eufy about 6 months ago, think I paid about £140. Best thing ever.
Most evenings I sit on the sofa watching tv while eufy pops out and sweeps up today's dog hairs. Because she's a cheap model she doesn't map the floor so for her to do the whole floor on auto mode takes forever in some very random routes, however, I set her to do a edge sweep, then I use her like a remote control car to do specific areas before letting her free on auto mode. She's quiet enough to be able to watch tv while she's doing her thing.
I will invest in a room mapping version in the future though as it's a large room.

I bought a Eufy (G40) recently. I set it off to do the main areas of the house, and I concentrate on the skirting, edges etc. I have hardfloors throughout downstairs and consequently a few rugs - I have to lift them all before setting Eufy off as it can get tangled up in them, or the little sidebar brush gets caught and falls off. They do collect some stuff though! Also great for getting under freestanding furniture etc.

A little late to the party here but we purchased a eufy in January this year. It's a game changer if you have pets! We only have carpets in the bedroom (I lost the fight with DH about having wood throughout). Due to being cream and having 2 black long haired cats they always looked terrible. The hoover comes out every day by magic and trawls the second floor seamlessly hoovering up all the fur. It's amazing how much it's picked up in the last month and a bit. We have emptied the bag from the collection tower twice.

It has limitations and i always hoover it once a week with the big hoover but its more of a passing sweep these days instead of spending ages sucking up fur and other settled bits of muck

I bought a £99 eufy in the prime sale last year and wouldn’t be without it now. We only have it for downstairs which is all hard floor but it keeps the floors free of pet hair and litter that the cats have tracked, which was my biggest problem as we have dark floors. Not sure how. It would do on the carpet but I’d pay what I paid just to have it for the kitchen alone!