Tell Me About Your Roomba or Roomba-like Product, Please
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Tell me about your Roomba and/or Scooba
Comments (12)I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my floor robots! I have a couple of Roombas and a Scooba. 1) Do they really know how to navigate so as to not keep retracing their "steps"? They do retrace their steps to some extent. I used to worry about it, now I just let them do their thing and see the results at the completion. 2) Does Scooba leave any standing water? No. A little bit of dampness to dry, about five minutes. 3) Scooba's so small. Don't you have to keep refilling? I have one that goes for nearly an hour, I refill it once during that amount of time. 4) Has the Clorox cleaner been ok for your wood floors? Sorry, I don't have wood floors. 5) They're really expensive. Worth it or no? I LOVE, LOVE my Roomba. I really LIKE my Scooba. If I could only have one, it would be the Roomba. 6) Any mechanical problems? Like a wonderful pet, they are great but do require some care. I empty my Roomba each time it runs (I have five boxer dogs) and I clean its brushes about every three runs. Maintenance is easy and takes a few minutes. Beyond that any problems I have had (few) have been quickly repaired by iRobot sending me a new part. 7) If they get stuck and you don't notice it right away, do they eventually turn off? Yes, they call you first (beep, beep). If you ignore them, they turn off/wait. 8) One of my issues is pet hair; any probs there? Well, I have five dogs, LOTS of hair even though they are boxers. I don't mind paying for something that works, but these days, it seems like everything I buy is a cheap piece of you know what. If you belong to Costco, they sell the Roomba and are VERY good about returns. Also, Hammacher Schlemmer offers a Lifetime Unconditional Guarantee on EVERYTHING they sell, and they sell iRobot products. I wish I had known about them before I bought through Home Shopping Network. There is a Roomba chat sight where many people have bought and had their units replaced through Hammacher Schlemmer. You can see the guarantee on their home page. I would no longer be without my Roombas! Here is a link that might be useful: Unconditional Lifetime Guarantee...See MoreRoomba owners...
Comments (25)Good reminder about the fringe, that is true. As far as plush carpets...it may be suitable for a quick surface clean if company is coming but depending on the carpet, it can & will take some of the carpet fabric with it. In our old house (we recently moved), I had white porcelain tile throughout the liv. room & kitchen which shows every speck, crumb, hair, etc. Even my grandmother was impressed. She stood there amazed & watched the thing clean until roomba was done! Matter of fact, just yesterday, my neighbor came over asking about it b/c she wants to use it for her dog grooming business. FYI there is also a pink version which donates a certain percentage of the cost to fight breast cancer....See MoreOT: Roomba for Hardwood & Rugs with Dogs???
Comments (14)just my 2 cents: I have 2 large dogs and bought a 500 series a few months ago, returned it after 2 weeks of really trying to get it to work. There are too many negatives to really do the work right and save time. 1. It would clean OK, but it would drop the dog hair randowly as it cleans, it may pick up on the next path and may drop more somewhere else. 2. It needs to be emptied too often, and the dog hair would get into the "wheels" of the spining brusher, difficult to take it out. 3. It SOMETIMES goes on a area rug OK, and SOMETIMES not. 4. It doesn't seem to have a logical pattern to clean, espeically after it hits an obsticle and turns back, it just seems to go over the same path too many times and ignores other area. 5. I live in a dry climate, the Roomba generates static while cleaning, so the dog hair gets on the Rooma itself, and when it cleans my couch, it touches the base of the couch and drops the hair on my couch! I can go on ... LOL. I just felt it needed too much "babying" to same time for me. So mine went back to BBB (bed bath and beyond)....See MoreROOMBA, tell me about it
Comments (18)What is really cool about them is that you can let it go to work when you leave for the day or when you go to bed and when it runs low on battery power, it heads back to its docking station to recharge. One night I let it loose to clean the living room before heading to bed. I got into bed and then felt guilty that it was out in the living room working in the dark. I got up to check on it. Got all the way out to the living room when I realized I was worried about a gosh darn machine ... albiet, one I named Scooter. :-) Enjoy your little guy Dave, you won't regret the purchase. Jodi-...See MoreChi
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