I bought a Roomba at Costco earlier this week. I finally had time to read the directions and turn it on this afternoon. It’s doing it’s thing now and I’m so excited! It seems to be working great. I hate vacuuming so hopefully Mr. Roomba with set me free.
Let us know how it goes. I would love to get one of those, but I’m pretty sure all of the dog hair would kill it. (Not to mention the dogs… )
M
I have a Scooba and Roomba. Both work very well. I think they have a special “dog hair” model. All I know is that I will never manually clean my tile or hard wood floors again.
How does your Scooba do against tough stuff on your tile? Our linoleum is getting pretty old, and it’s a pain to keep it clean. Since my wife has a bad back and I hate to mop with a passion, I’m thinking of getting one…
Or I could just press-gang the kids into doing it… Not sure I want an 8-year-old with a bucket full of mop water, though…
I bought a Roomba at Costco earlier this week. I finally had time to read the directions and turn it on this afternoon. It’s doing it’s thing now and I’m so excited! It seems to be working great. I hate vacuuming so hopefully Mr. Roomba with set me free.
Lady, you have it all. And what you don’t have…you’ll get!
I see that you have already established that you have a “male” Roomba. HMMM.
Bernie
Fuuny I just saw these this week. I assumed I was getting sucked in by a “too good to be true” thing. Keep us posted.
Reporting back: I’m very pleased with the results. It whirred around for an hour then went back to it’s docking station. Amazing. Almost all of my furniture has legs, nothing sits directly on the floor. Mr. Roomba (what shall I name him?) was able to get under everything and suck up the dust bunnies and cat hair. FYI I have hardwood floors with a 6x8 wool rug in the living room. It did a good job on both and the kitchen vinyl. I tried to help it out by putting my dining room chairs up and getting everything off the floor as far as cords, magazine basket etc. I didn’t check it’s hopper to see how much dirt it picked up, I’m guessing a lot.
My cat was a bit perplexed by it.
Yay for the Roomba!
Wait until it revolts.
You know robots only want to do one thing: Kill all humans.
(what shall I name him?)
Since you have decided it is a “him”, and since it runs on batteries, vibrates, rotates and sucks, nothing really comes to mind.
Can I send pic of a few rooms in my house and you could tell me if you think it would work? Can it go room to room?
How about… McSucky!
I love my Roombas and my Scooba. I have 2 Roombas and they go about 2-3 times a week (they are scheduled for 2 x, but sometimes I send them off on a 3rd if they dogs have been particularly rambunctious in the house). The Scooba goes about every other day since my dogs track mud in a lot.
I can get by with vacumming and mopping 1x a month. I love them. They are like family. My roomba’s are Ralph (the oldest one) and Robert, I haven’t named the Scooba, I just call it Scoobs. Funny they are male names too, even though I never really think of him as a male.
How does your Scooba do against tough stuff on your tile?
Surprisingly well. Here’s kind of the deal with both the wet and dry types (and keep in mind, I have 4 kids so you can imagine how extreme my situation can be ;). I imagine that other owners will agree as well.
Both types are really good at maintenance but not as good at deep deep cleaning. If you use them regularly they will keep your floors very clean. However, if you pour a bottle of syrup on the floor and let it dry for three days the Scoob will have a hard time. Both are great at maintenance but if you slack for too long you might need to do some hand cleaning.
With the Scoob we sweep up the big chunks of food before we run it. It’s not going to clean up a pile of spaghetti. However again, our floor gets very dirty very fast and I am always amazed how well it cleans (even when very very dirty). The tile absolutely shines. We use the Scooba 95% of the time, and hand clean 5% of the time if that.
The Roomba also works well but it won’t totally replace an upright IMO (as much as the Scooba replaces hand cleaning). We use the Roomba 75% of the time and the upright 25% of the time. The upright definitely gets in there better for the deep down cleaning but the Roomba does a good job of getting the daily stuff…
I like that! McSucky.
Let us know how it goes. I would love to get one of those, but I’m pretty sure all of the dog hair would kill it. (Not to mention the dogs… )
M
We’ve had one of the early models for some time now (about 3-4 years) and use it in our downstairs ‘family’ room. It has berber carpet and the Roomba does pretty good with dog hair. The only thing is that I get such a kick out of watching it work that half the time we start it I spend 20 minutes watching the damn thing vacuum the floor when I could have it done in 5 minutes with a regular vacuum. But what fun would that be.
How would it do on my wood stairs?
It doesn’t do stairs (or windows).
**It doesn’t do stairs (or windows). **
I think I guessed that.
I am interested though. Why are there so many models? Picture a wood floor with a treadmill on a rubber mat, a bike on a Computrainer, on a rubber mat, a weight bench. Can it handle that?
How about 1500 feet of tile with oriental rugs (with fringe)?
**How about 1500 feet of tile with oriental rugs (with fringe)? **
There is a specific model for that. I think it’s the fringe master 9000 series.
Yeah it could handle the treadmill, won’t clean your bike chain should avoid it ok. The weight bench should be ok. We recently got an antique rug shipped in from Turkey with fringe. It does pretty well if I roll the fringe edge under the rug a bit so the fringe is hiding. It would eat it for dinner otherwise just like your regular vacuum. This works well because it makes a nice stiff edge for it to bump into. You can also get invisible wall sensors to tell it to avoid certain areas.