Vacuum Robots

LOL. Sounds like a WMD.

We have a Eufy 30c, given to us by my step-son. We use it.

If you have, like us, a small space with a goodly amount of *stuff*, it's ok at best.
Certainly no substitute for doing it ourselves.

But that's another story

An extremely long post from elsewhere outlining the dangers of owning a Roomba:

So, last week, something pretty tragic happened in our household. It's taken me until now to wrap my head around it and find the words to describe the horror. It started off simple enough - something that's probably happened to most of you.

Sometime between midnight and 1:30am, our puppy pooped a massive t u r d on our rug in the living room. This is the only time she's done this, so it's probably just because we forgot to let her out before we went to bed that night. Now, if you have a detective's mind, you may be wondering how we know the **** occurred between midnight and 1:30am. We were asleep, so how do I know that time frame?

Why, friends, that's because our Roomba runs at 1:30am every night, while we sleep. And it found the ****. And so begins the Pooptastrophe. The poohpocalypse. The pooppening.

If you have a Roomba, please rid yourself of all distractions and absorb everything I'm about to tell you.

Do not, under any circumstances, let your Roomba run over dog ****. If the unthinkable does happen, and your Roomba runs over dog ****, stop it immediately and do not let it continue the cleaning cycle. Because if that happens, it will spread the dog **** over every conceivable surface within its reach, resulting in a home that closely resembles a Jackson Pollock **** painting.

It will be on your floorboards. It will be on your furniture legs. It will be on your carpets. It will be on your rugs. It will be on your kids' toy boxes. If it's near the floor, it will have **** on it. Those awesome wheels, which have a checkered surface for better traction, left 25-foot **** trails all over the house. Our lovable Roomba, who gets a careful cleaning every night, looked like it had been mudding. Yes, mudding - like what you do with a Jeep on a pipeline road. But in ****.

Then, when your kid gets up at 3am to crawl into your bed, you'll wonder why she smells like dog ****. And you'll walk into the living room. And you'll wonder why the floor feels slightly gritty. And you'll see a brown-encrusted, vaguely Roomba-shaped thing sitting in the middle of the floor with a glowing green light, like everything's okay. Like it's proud of itself. You were still half-asleep until this point, but now you wake up pretty damn quickly.

And then the horror. Oh the horror.

So, first you clean the child. You scrub the **** off her feet and put her back in bed. But you don't bother cleaning your own feet, because you know what's coming. It's inevitable, and it's coming at you like a freight train. Some folks would shrug their shoulders and get back in bed to deal with it in the morning. But you're not one of those people - you can't go to sleep with that war zone of **** in the living room.

So you clean the Roomba. You toss it in the bathtub to let it soak. You pull it apart, piece-by-piece, wondering at what point you became an adult and assumed responsibility for 3:30am-Roomba-disassembly-****-cleanups. By this point, the **** isn't just on your hands - it's smeared up to your elbows. You already heard the Roomba make that "whirlllllllllllllllll-boop-hisssssssss" noise that sounds like electronics dying, and you realize you forgot to pull the battery before getting it wet. More on that later.

Oh, and you're not just using profanity - you're inventing new types of profanity. You're saying things that would make Satan shudder in revulsion. You hope your kid stayed in bed, because if he hears you talking like this, there's no way he's not ending up in prison.

Then you get out the carpet shampooer. When you push it up to the rug - the rug that started it all - the shampooer just laughs at you. Because that rug is going in the trash, folks. But you shampoo it anyway, because your wife loved that damn rug, and you know she'll ask if you tried to clean it first.

Then you get out the paper towel rolls, idly wondering if you should invest in paper towel stock, and you blow through three or four rolls wiping up ****. Then you get the spray bottle with bleach water and hose down the floor boards to let them soak, because the **** has already dried. Then out comes the steam mop, and you take care of those 25-ft **** trails.

And then, because it's 6am, you go to bed. Let's finish this tomorrow, right?

The next day, you finish taking the Roomba apart, scraping out all the tiny flecks of ****, and after watching a few Youtube instructional videos, you remove the motherboard to wash it with a toothbrush. Then you bake it in the oven to dry. You put it all back together, and of course it doesn't work. Because you heard the "whirlllllllllllllll-boop-hissssssss" noise when it died its poopy death in the bathtub. But you hoped that maybe the Roomba gods would have mercy on you.

I’ve had a Roomba 800 series for about 3 years now. Love it.
Runs every day for an hour+. I empty the bin every other day. My main floor is mostly wood, little bit of tile, and an area rug. Only have one cat but also have two dirty children.

Like mentioned above, it isn’t the be all end all, but a great supplemental in between.

I don't mind caring for my home the old fashioned way 😂 not cheap as the best things usually aren't but for those that don't mind manual cleaning way up and above what any bot will do and you want one with a timer that also sucks unwanted particles from the air you suck in with your noses and mouths...Schoettler Research in CA produce one bad whama mamma called The Patriot and we love ours. The dust level in our home and on my gear had dropped by more than 60% by using this system and we love it...well..I love how well it works. As for the bots..maybe when I can no longer walk.

mhardy6647 wrote: »

We just kinda embrace the dust here.

Kinda hard not to but doing my part to decrease it as much as I can. 😄🎩

Ha, funny!

We love our layout, being in the construction industry, it's nice to have a layout that isn't like every other new house out there. It is very unique and one of the major reasons we purchased it.
Keep in mind there are a couple of rooms not showing that fill those empty spaces

We bought a BoostIQ RoboVac 11S about 6 months ago and have been very pleased with it. It doesn't have wifi or gps so you have to use the barrier strips that come with it or block off doorways if you want to keep it in a certain area. it does a good job picking up everything and it always returns to its base. We have two dogs that shed and it gets most of their fur out of our carpet. Still no substitute for a full-sized vac but it's great for in-between vacuuming, especially in the kitchen.

Ha... I just bought a Roboroc S6 Pure... I like it... Now I have a cleaning service but now that I have a dog, I like to run this thing a couple of times a week and it keeps the tile floors and the one room where I have a rug and hardwood nice and clean so we can walk around barefoot. (I hate feeling "stuff" on the floor beneath my feet)... So far so good and even my cleaning lady approves!

And remember dogpoop and robot vacuums don't mix....they smear

BTW it was Tommy's first Bday on monday


He loves ice cubes on the patio in the afternoon heat

No offense meant to anyone but vacuuming isn't that hard. My last roommate bought one and that dumb thing would get stuck on things, bump around in circles, the battery would die in the middle of nowhere, it was noisey especially if you were on a bottom floor and it was upstairs, it was more of an annoyance than helpful. Maybe he just bought a garbage brand or something. Even if it was perfect it, to me, is not a big deal to vacuum/Swiffer/sweep for 20 minutes and the job gets done better.