School me on Roombas

If your house is full of pet hair it will be full in about 15 mins and re-dock. If you don't have pets and you house isn't too dirty then it should be alright.
It is not ideal to vacuum an entire floor while you are gone. Maybe one section one day and another the next. Just empty it and charge it when you get home.

 

My Deebot will clean area rugs on hard wood floors.

I'm in the lazy camp. I don't have pets, so it's mainly to keep the dust from accumulating.

 

Ours gets up on the rug, I think it is a 880. Might depend on how thick of a rug it is and I'm sure fringe is a problem.
I think they list the thickness of what it can get over.

 

Ours does rugs no problem, there are 4 on the floor it patrols. If you run it every day it doesn't fill up super fast but if it's just once a week.... Yeah it's full in about 30 mins.

 

Now I would buy one of those to do the vacuuming.

 

I’d LOVE to have one, but my dachshunds think potty training is a funny joke. It would smear pee and poop all over the house within the first two hours.

 

I would buy one too. It would NEVER get any vacuuming done.

 

All I can see is to be careful if you have pets. A friend of mine had his dog poop in the house, the roomba ran over it and spread all over the house.

 

Wait....aint vacuums for carpet? Isn't the only carpet in your house on your stairs? Ain't no Gahdamn robot gonna do that. I'm confused.

 

The robots don’t compare to a good vacuum.
I just bought myself a refurbed Dyson - that thing sucks so good. I vacuum once a week without pets and the thing was full the first time I used it on Sunday. I don’t know why I didn’t buy one before.

Anyways, y’all see that new Honda CBR Fireblade? Damn I want that.

 

About every other day for us. We only run it Monday thru Friday while we are at work. While it does not collect all of the dog hair it grabs a good majority of it. They are not an alternative to a vacuum, just a weekday assistant.

 

It will once

 

I have a Roomba 980 and I can tell you that thing vacuums as well as a full size. It transitions from carpet to hardwood to area rugs with ease. It powers up when it gets on carpets or rugs and pulls up a ton of dust and dirt, then powers down when it gets back onto hardwoods. Never have issues with cables or cords. The new I7 model allows you to control which rooms it vacuums.

 

We got one of the cheaper Roomba’s via Amazon Prime days deal as the wife has wanted one for a while

No pets, we tend to run it more than we would vacuum normally and I’m surprised how much dust and stuff it picks up
We do a different room every couple of days, I doubt if we save any money but the house seems cleaner

Ours seems to love getting stuck behind the sofa, or if you leave a door open it will escape off somewhere else

 

Yes to Dyson. Had mine for years.

What's this other nonsense you're babbling about?

 

When my wife wanted darker finished floors, I said it will show all the dust that carpets hide. She said No Prob, I'll get a robot vacuum!
My wife got us a DeeBot when I installed hardwoods er'where we had carpets in out home. I was skeptical at first- Not now
The thing words great on random, and you can manually control it wit hit's remote too. you can program it, send it to an Iphone app. etc.
I just asked and she said it was just over $200
One of the better buys we have made.
Look online, take reviews with a grain of salt

 

I run ours every other day or when i remember to hit the button. It is full by the time the battery dies but the canister is only a small one so that's no surprise. 6-8 runs would probably equal a full vacuum bag.

 

To clarify a few points, no dogs. Just two cats so not a ton of fur. No rugs. Not sure how much life our vacuum has left. Figured for what a dyson would cost I could buy one one of these and with effectively no carpet, it doesn’t exactly have to deep clean anything. Wires are well hidden/tucked away so it wouldn’t fit into any of those spaces anyways. Only thing it might smear is the cats get hairballs on occasion but we find them pretty quick so we just wouldn’t be able to run it while we’re not home. But that wouldn’t be any fun anyways. Gotta be here to watch the cats ride it.

 

No no no no no no no.

Rent. You'll thank me later.