IRobot

Ok guess I should have asked first, but anyone got any experience with them in your home? My wife wanted sonething to cut down on daily cleaning of our hardwood floors. Between the dog dragging in grass clippings and us( we have Bermuda grass) plus it's a lot for her lately and she won't let me hire a maid. So she has been looking at them for a while, so I get on their website and order the newest best most powerful.

So please anyone have one and do you like it? After the battery charges I'll see how our 7# Yorker likes it! Tc

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Originally Posted by tcrideshd

Ok guess I should have asked first, but anyone got any experience with them in your home? My wife wanted sonething to cut down on daily cleaning of our hardwood floors. Between the dog dragging in grass clippings and us( we have Bermuda grass) plus it's a lot for her lately and she won't let me hire a maid. So she has been looking at them for a while, so I get on their website and order the newest best most powerful.

So please anyone have one and do you like it? After the battery charges I'll see how our 7# Yorker likes it! Tc

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I had one for years, was hilarious.

Had a docking station, and at night, we'd go to bed, and the thing would go out and vacuum all the floors and the carpet in the kitchen and the family room, I'd say close to 800 to 1,000 sq ft(we'd close the doors to other sections of the house so it wouldn't take off to other areas). We would come down in the morning, and the floors would be gleaming, it micro-vacuums, and we'd always laugh at how absolutely clean it got everything, and incredibly fresh and clean smelling. Carpets were great, it would finish it's job and then return to its station and charge.

You can't have carpets with tassles or loose string like decoration, have to make sure the area doesn't have obviously things that will clog it up, but the thing rocked.

My wife is a dog person, I am not, the dog destroyed the iRobot, whereas my crazy cats would play with it, and occasionally go to sleep on it while it rode around, was ferkin' hilarious.

There is one that will wash your floors as well...but the one that goes out and vacuums, once you get it set up right, aside from cleaning, it's hilarious to watch.....

Well that's reassuring, we have all hardwood and tile, just some area rugs that are not frilly. Would be nice if she didn't have to sweep or vacumn everyday. Yea looked at the mop one, may have to but if you don't have any muddy feet coming n. We don't mop around here very often, she's got the dog trained, she stops at the rug coming in when she's wet and waits till mommy dries her feet. And we don't walk n the house with shoes n, so it's mostly the sweeping, Bermuda is great looking lawn, but it has a lot of short dry clippings that go everywhere, sometimes it blows in the dog door straight not the living room. Tc

The wife has been looking at these for a while now, probably trying to drop a Christmas gift hint. All I know is that there are two kinds, IRobot and Shark. Not sure what the difference is.
I told her to buy whatever she wanted. It would be fun though to watch one with the cat.
I'm going to hold off until they make one that can bring me a drink.

Pete <:-}

Dyson makes one too.

If you have a complicated layout and a lot of busy furniture it can be a problem as can a dog.

if the dog has an accident you won't believe the mess it can create.

Peter I gave it to her now, the last time I gave her an appliance for a Christmas gift, I had to damn near max my Jareds account out to get her happy again. Tc

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Peter I gave it to her now, the last time I gave her an appliance for a Christmas gift, I had to damn near max my Jareds account out to get her happy again. Tc

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Tc, You got that right!
Something about appliances, kitchen gizmos and the like that just don't fly on holidays and special occasions.
I learned my lesson 40 something years ago when we were first married.

Pete <:-}

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Peter I gave it to her now, the last time I gave her an appliance for a Christmas gift, I had to damn near max my Jareds account out to get her happy again. Tc

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Hahahaha....I gave my wife the iRobot for Xmas as well....and it went over as Keith Richards said, "About as well as a Led Zeppelin..."...mind you, was prepared and alluded to it being a joke, and then gave her another present, but walked into that one myself....to this day, she says I gave her a vacuum cleaner for one Xmas....sheesh, every once in awhile I have to cut her off from some Phranky lovin' to remind her that ain't the truth....:D

Yup, longest she's made it is, let's see, 11 years now, but I'll wear her down eventually.....

It's kinda one sided when it comes to their gifts.
Nothing to do with housework for them but it's perfectly ok for them to give us a saw, drill or some kind of tool.
A cat riding on Rosie the robotic vac sounds perfectly fine to me.

Pete <:-}

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It's kinda one sided when it comes to their gifts.
Nothing to do with housework for them but it's perfectly ok for them to give us a saw, drill or some kind of tool.
A cat riding on Rosie the robotic vac sounds perfectly fine to me.

Pete <:-}

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Don't get me started there.

I got an odd wife. See loves vacuum cleaners. All the floors in my house are always clean. And we always take our shoes off when entering the house. Although she love her cats so i think its more to get up cat hair. I say odd because i have a split level house. So 3 levels. Each level has a vacuum cleaner and she also has one for my garage. She vacs my garage once a month.
Crazy old lady!

Good luck on the irobot vac. If i got one for my wife it would be like taking her fun away.

We have a whole house system it's mounted in the garage, so very handy and does a great job, my wife is a very clean freak. It's not taking away from her fun, she has medical issues now, so its hard for her to keep up with her everyday vacuuming. It's bothering her that she can't everyday. Like I said before I wanted to get her a maid but that goes against her way of doing things, so this is to alleviate some of the heavy work.

I Set it up and sent it for doing its hing and sure enough it got all the areas it would fit into, no grass or debris in the main walkways and the best part was all the furniture it went underneath of , plus the beds. Sure does work, as clean as this house is I still had quite a bit in the container to dump out, so far my 800$ investment is doing well. Tc

Tc - check out neato connected vacuum.
They constantly evolve and work ok, with the connected ones you can schedule them to run at certain times. Ninja/Shark launched their new version of a robo-vacuum recently. Lots of reviews on YouTube.

Good to hear. Glad the irobot worked well for ya. At that price i think id want it to bring me a beer too.
And sorry to hear about the wifes medical issues. Hope things turn around for her. I didnt know those whole house things worked very well. Wondered about those. Although im not ripping up walls to install one. If i was having a house built i might think about one of those.

OH ya they work, the suction from these whole house units is deadly. Ya unless you have basements and service chases, it's not practical in an existing home. We have had them in our last 3 homes and it will be n this next one we're going to be starting soon. So far no portable vacuum I've seen can do wha these things can,, the motor on thus thing is huge, you can't carry it around with you. Makes for a nice garage cleanup or car vac.

Neehoya, this new 980 is connected also, we put the app on her phone, then went out to the farmers market, as we were driving she hit the clean button, we got home it was just finishing up. Now we have it set up for auto clean at night. Tc

We have roomba and I suggest getting the 890 or even the 860, i think it will be good enough. We have a Roomba 890 which cleans after our chow's fur-falls. We used to own a Roomba 650 with brush and it is just too much of a hassle when it comes to maintenance.

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We have roomba and I suggest getting the 890 or even the 860, i think it will be good enough. We have a Roomba 890 which cleans after our chow's fur-falls. We used to own a Roomba 650 with brush and it is just too much of a hassle when it comes to maintenance.

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This is my concern as I have a long haired "German Shedder" aka German Shepherd that stays inside at night. Our house is laminated floors throughout, but I have held off because I know how any brushes would get hair all up in them.

Appreciate the advise my friend but we wound up with the 980. Now after 2 cleanings I,m amazed by he amount of dirt this hing us picking up, yet the house looks as clean as ever. Like Phrank said we got up this morning and the floors were all shiny and clean, those little rubber bars must polish the wood a little. Tc

I have to b sure my wife isn't reading this over my shoulder.......it's gonna cost me

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After reading this, I may have to give the Roomba a try AGAIN. My first go round the thing found its way into the fireplace and filled with ashes. Needless to say, it was ruined. With 2 dogs, Labshedder being one, and 3 kids, any help we can get to keep things clean is a huge help.

I am curious if the 980 really has 5X more suction than the 960. Also, we have no carpets so that feature is not needed.

I'm glad to hear first hand positive experiences!

Some of these vacuums are supposed to have a feature that allows you to set up points that the vacuum will not go past. I would that k that would help if you have an open fire place.

I would like to have one of these once I move into a bigger place, Lord willing.

I can definitely see this happening.

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Appreciate the advise my friend but we wound up with the iRobot roomba 980. Now after 2 cleanings I,m amazed by he amount of dirt this hing us picking up, yet the house looks as clean as ever. Like Phrank said we got up this morning and the floors were all shiny and clean, those little rubber bars must polish the wood a little. Tc

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Excellent choice. I've used Eufy Robovac 11 and so far it's working okay. Now, I am now planning to get a new one. I hope 980 will be a better option in the long run.