Recommendations for a Robotic Vacuum

last month

I've had a simple Roomba for years. I never programmed it to do a certain pattern nor do I control it from an app. I'm not at all interested in doing that. I press the button and it goes.

However, it's a bit "long in the tooth" and throws some error messages that we look up and then remedy, but I'm thinking it's getting to be time for a replacement.

I have mostly hardwood floors with a few smallish area rugs. I don't think I want a vaccuum that also washes the floor, do I?

My main thing is pet hair (dog and cats) and kitchen crumbs. Yes, I do sweep, use my big vacuum, and wash the floor, but the Roomba is convenient when I just need to have it do an all-over sweep.

What do you have? Why do you like it? What don't you like?

Thanks so much.

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anj_p

last month

We have a roomba. I am not a fan. It has been sent to the basement and will live out the rest of its days there, knowing that it was terrible at its job.

We recently bought a roborock, which vacuums and mops. We are huge fans.

I don't know why you wouldn't want the mop feature. I think it's fabulous.

I also don't know why you wouldn't want the map feature. It's the best. The vacuum moves in a regular pattern, not randomly all over the place like our roomba did. It goes back and forth in neat lines. I can also tell it what rooms to do and it does them and only them (lots of times, it's just the kitchen that needs a sweep). It also allows you to define no mop zones (like area rugs). You don't have to mop all the time, you just put the mop attachment on when you do.

I told my dad about it, and he & his GF bought one that empties itself (ours is not that fancy). They LOVE it. (They're in their late 70s/early 80s so I think they appreciate the break from sweeping & mopping). They call it Cinderella and gushed about it to their friends and 3 more people bought one. Guess we're trendsetters.

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Olychick
last month
I have had several roombas and was pretty happy with them, but they all eventually got error messages that were impossible to fix. The last time I bought a Shark which self empties into its charging station, a feature I really love. But it doesn't do as good a job cleaning as the Roombas do. And it gets hung up on the curved chrome legs/base of my barstools and cannot extricate itself, which drives me crazy. That means I can't run it when I'm gone and expect to have things clean when I return home. I do no recommend it. I'm going to return it to Costco and see about a Roomba with the self emptying feature. I haven't had the floor mopping option...seems like just more features to break.
joyfulguy
last month
That's the trouble with all these features - they break ... and the machine needs to be replaced ...

... till the owner goes broke.

o j
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littlebug Zone 5 Missouri
last month
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Following with interest. I was also just thinking my Roomba, Rosie, is no longer cleaning the way she used to. She’s not throwing error messages though; she she just doesn’t seem to be covering all the surfaces like she should.
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Suzieque
Original Author
last month
Thank you 3 for your responses. Oly, the self-emptying part does interest me, too. I do hope that some folks with recommendations, etc. chime in.
palisades_
last month
A friend bought a Roomba but after a few months it started to bump into things and could not find its way home, ran out of charge and died on the battlefield. He smashed it. That solidified my decision not to try one.
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sjerin
last month
No luck with 2 Roombas, one refurbished that my husband ordered from a accidentally.

We then bough a simple, no-bells-and-whistles Eufy and love it—it sucks up lots of dirt and dust, which neither Roomba did.
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Suzieque
Original Author
last month
Yay! Lots of good info here.