After meal floor cleaning

[Robyndd]

Has anyone got any favourite gadgets for this?
We have an eufy robot vac which is good but I'd say we kill about one every 4-6 months as they can't handle the combo of porridge, peas, butter beans and other food chunks.
It also doesn't really pickup bigger stuff and so often drives around peas, kidney beans and sweetcorn.
Brushing up takes forever as you need to do loads of passes over some foods.
What is really like is to whizz round with something to suck up the worst of it, then set off the robot after that. Ai says get a wet dry vacuum but has anyone found something that has worked well for them?

Is this under a high chair?

So you just leave any food that is tossed from the high chair for your robovac to deal with?

OP - this is not typical, and I wouldn’t expect them to be able to cope with this (!)

So much so I suspect this post is a wind up.

I mean I do a quick dust pan and brush sweep 🤷🏻‍♀️ I can’t imagine any hoover being able to easily handle big wet chunks regularly and it takes one second to just sweep the worst

Dog!

Must be hard work without one!

You could stick something under the high chair like a oilcloth tablecloth or something and then just lift it after the meal and tip into bin. I wouldn’t send the robot vacuum round with food chunks on the floor. It’ll smear as well as getting bunged up.

a long handled dustpan and brush, it honestly only takes a minute or 2 for the drier things and its much easier than a regular dustpan and brush. wet cloth on the really wet things like pasta sauce

I'm not keen on letting the robot hoover do it as I worry about the food going bad in the dustbin and stinking up the place

Combination of dog and damp microfibre cloth.

It was a long time ago for me but I had a rubber mat under the highchair (more like a wipeable tablecloth than a mat) and I just wiped it with a dishcloth and flicked food bits into the bin. I know this was in the dark ages (1990s, early 2000s) but it worked fine for me.

Also I can't believe you're going through a robo hoover every 4-6 months! Bet that's adding up quick....

I had a piece of oilcloth that I shook outside then wiped. I used to take it with me to other people’s houses too.solved the problem easily. Alternatively-a Labrador.

How old are the children? If it's weaning mess, best thing to do is to put some sort of mat under the highchair - a cheap, washable shower curtain works well. If you have toddlers/preschoolers, I would buy them their own little dustpan and brush - it's a great activity to encourage them to take part in family chores and they love helping.

We don't generally have food on the floor as my kids are older but the cat hasn't got the memo and regularly empties wet food and biscuits all over the floor so I just do a quick sweep up with a dustpan, or if really wet just wipe it up with a piece of kitchen roll - before letting the robo vac near it. Takes 30 seconds :) Interested to see if there is anything else out there though!

Dustpan and brush for dry stuff. Damp cloth for anything else.

This is all very odd! After my grandson has eaten his food and thrown half of it over the floor, I clean him / his high chair, give the flow a quick sweep with my dry mop, a quick vacuum with my cordless Dyson then if needed a quick wet mop. Takes about 3 minutes in total!

We bought a cheap shower curtain that sat under the high chair, and also had a dog! I think you need to sweep up first whatever you do vacuum wise!

How much food does your child throw on the floor?! How old are they? Surely the throwing food over the side of the high chair is a very brief time, because you teach them not to do it? How can you have gone through several robovacs in that time? Unless you are going to drip feed about disabilities (yours or your child's), surely you just bend down and wipe up? You don't need "gadgets" to clean up a bit of dropped food, a bit of kitchen roll to scoop up soggy porridge or the like and then a damp cloth to wipe up any smears. If it's an accidental bowl of dry food that has been spilled, then a dustpan and brush.

Vinyl tablecloth underneath the chair.
Just wipe it off with dishcloth or papertowels then wipe with damp cloth.

Replying to everyone. Four kids aged 0-7. The one in the high chair is obviously the messiest, but something under his highchair would only help a little as they all except the eldest seem to drop/spill everything. Was hoping for some sort of gadget to avoid having to lean down due to a. Back injury and b. Almost always having the baby in one arm. Should add that we home ed, so this is every single time people eat which feels like about one million times a day. At the moment I dustpan the worst of it, and then either hoover or robot mop/vac but I'd love to just zoomed about with one tool that I can operate one handed maybe then set the robot off if there's smaller bits left over.

Those who suggested a dog - this is exactly what I need but in gadget version and with four kids 7 and I see I don't want to have to look after anything else!

A labrador.

The food barely had a chance to hit the floor with ours.

A springer spaniel. I wish I'd had one when my kids were small.

After my grandson has eaten his food and thrown half of it over the floor, I clean him / his high chair, give the flow a quick sweep with my dry mop, a quick vacuum with my cordless Dyson then if needed a quick wet mop. Takes about 3 minutes in total

Blimey, are you the Bionic Woman?

I still don't understand how anyone other than the one in the high chair is dropping things on the floor apart from the very occasional spill. If any of the other children are older than two, they can be taught to clean their own mess up. That will save you a job. They are also much nearer the floor and cleaning up your own mess is a necessary skill that you can teach them.

That's a lot!

I think:

• long handled dustpan and brush
• cordless vacuum (like shark or Dyson) than can be used 1-handed
• speed mop - light, can be used one handed.

How much do the older kids help out? At nursery my 4yo would be expected to scrape his plate and put it in the sink, so we have the same expectation at home. Similarly, if he makes a mess by dropping stuff on the floor, he can pick it up and dispose of it.

Homeschooling a 7yo with a baby and 2 other littles sounds tough though!

It's great but there's just never a break from the mess! Everyone else at least gets one meal off when they are at school etc.

Get the children to do it? If my 4 yr old drops food, we ask her to pick it up, and have done since she was old enough to be in a chair rather than a high chair.
Same for my 7 yr old but she doesn’t really drop food.

Broom
Longhandled dustpan
Steam mop

also I'd send the older dc to school