Roomba?

[Riven]

Anyone have a roomba? Love it? Hate it? Tell me all about it!

We have hard wood or tile floors in every room except two in our whole house, and sweeping is a constant thing. ( I really miss carpet sometimes, but with the traffic we have in our house... it's never clean and always worn down! )

My mom has one and says it works good... when she remembers to turn it on, lol.

 

[Essentia]

I know your pain when it comes to sweeping all the time. I have carpet in no rooms so the broom is constantly attached to my hand.

 

[alli713]

The people who I know that have them like them, but say they don't really get deep down in the carpets. But since you want it for hardwood, I think it would work better.

I know back when they first came out, they broke a lot, (I worked at a store that sold them, and they were by far our most returned electronic) but perhaps they're better now.

 

[Riven]

Good piece of information!

 

[Chub_Chub]

I would definitely look into getting one from a store with a good extended return policy. :thumbsup:I have a friend who had one and he said the thing would have issues at around 90 days, and he would take it back to the store for a replacement. He loved the Roomba, but it was when they first came out and it didn't handle cat hair very well at the time. I have no idea if the higher end ones are working better now, I was thinking about getting one too!

 

[BooBoo*TheKiddo*]

I removed the carpet from the chins room because it was terrible to get hay out of it.

Then other parts of the house has hard wood flooring in it so we just use the broom or swifter on them. Then a vacuum on the bedrooms where carpets are.

 

[smhufflepuff]

One of the people at work had one... I'd say it did a wonderfully half baked job at cleaning; however, it had wonderful other attributes.

It tended to go over some areas a number of times while completely missing others. It got itself trapped frequently - drive itself under a chair, then act completely befuddled as it couldn't navigate out from the four chair legs. Back and forth - bump, whirr, bump, whirr, bump, whirr...

Aside from that, it's probably the most fun "toy" there was at work. I'd try to stay focused on actual work, but find myself just watching it go. Then get stuck. I'd rescue it and try to help it get to a place it kept missing by corralling it with my feet. And when I was really, really bored, I'd set up an obstacle course for it with my files. Good times... good times

I miss that Roomba

 

[Riven]

Well, I don't have anything is can get stuck under so I don't think that's an issue really... but the obstacle course sounds entertaining.

 

[aznmexaggie]

The Roomba is fun to watch... haha. We have one and it is okay but tends to miss some areas while getting other areas multiple times. It does work well on our hardwood floors and moderately well on the carpeted living room/formal dining room. It sometimes would also get stuck underneath the table and between chair legs.

We originally got our Roomba from a friend who didn't want it because it stopped working... so my dad, being the handyman he is, fixed it.

Overall, it's ok... but we tend to use the regular vacuum cleaner more often (and the shop vac for the chin room!).

 

[Melissa]

I sweep my floors every day but I had a cleaning fest the other day and swept like a mad woman! My back actually HURTS.. And I was totally coming on here tonight to ask about this.

I have seen there are pet roombas. Has anyone had that one? Is there a significant difference between the two?..besides the outrageous prices difference? Is it worth the $200 price difference?

 

[moon]

I want one. Just to watch it. Unfortunately, mine would get hopelessly clogged with pet hair, I'm sure. Or fall down the steps and break it's collar bone or something.

 

[Melissa]

I want one. Just to watch it. Unfortunately, mine would get hopelessly clogged with pet hair, I'm sure. Or fall down the steps and break it's collar bone or something.

Apparentl there is one FOR pet hair but it is outragiously priced at like $350+ Im just wondering if there is a significant difference in how they work for there to be such a high price mark up.

 

[Chin_Parent]

I know this is an old thread, but I grew up in a house that had an inordinate amount of roombas. My dad is really handy and would buy broken roombas and repair them. He also has the one that can mop a floor, I think it's called a scooba, and a robotic lawn mower.

The trick with the roomba is that it doesn't clean as well as a vacuum, if you're doing weekly cleanings or something like that. It works best when you run it everyday, which is what my dad did, there was a roomba for every floor, lol.