I had a Roomba for a number of years. While it's true it won't do as thorough job as a manual vacuum cleaner on a single run, since I could run it every day my floor was just as clean.
Works very well on wooden, tiles and vinyl floors - but not so well on thick-pile carpets and rugs. It also can't do a good job around a forest of table and chair legs - so occasionally you'll have to move the furniture so it can do a better job (as if you were doing it manually). I set up my docking station under a couch - so you never knew it was there until it came charging out to do its run (set to go when I was at work). Now I've got kids, there's constant floor clutter from toys and the like which need to be cleaned up - so I no longer find it practical. On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 09:04, Dan Cash <[email protected]> wrote: > I bought a Mint 4200 a few years back ... very basic, just pushes a pad > around, dust and hair accumulate at the front of the pad (static?) and > returns to it's spot when finished. > 'Navigation beacons' I ran it once a week, or whenever wife was out > ...crowded house, I'd pick up chairs and kids stuff from the floors, set it > up and go read a book. > Lower profile than the Roomba, and great for Wooden floors, was good > picking up dust and hair after three girls. My wife complained it that it > dropped dust in the corners, but I didn't see the issue. > > Mint were acquired by Roomba a few years back; newer versions have better > room partitioning and longer battery. > I've replaced the battery, and repaired the slipping wheel tracks, still > works OK in my new place (smaller, and less hair :) ). > > On Tue, 21 Jan 2020 at 06:01, DotNet Dude <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I found it depends on your floors and what your idea of clean is. Forget >> carpet. Tiles and timber floors they are ok, just ok. Not worth the money >> imo. You can sweep (those material heads, I forget the name) and do an >> equivalent if not better job in a few mins on hard floors. >> >> On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 21:50, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Very off topic but what success has anyone had here with robo vacs? >>> >>> Our 11 month old German Shepherd is blowing her coat and the place is >>> dog hair central hence the question. >>> >>> I know a few people who have had them but they've died after a few >>> months etc. The better ones that can self empty etc seem to be around the >>> $1500 mark - which gets up there in price as we have two floors and they >>> haven't invented one that climbs stairs yet. :) >>> >>> David Connors >>> [email protected] | M +61 417 189 363 >>> Telegram: https://t.me/davidconnors >>> LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors >>> >>> > > -- > Dan Cash > -m. 0411 468 779 > -e. [email protected] > > F.A.B. Information Systems Pty Ltd ABN 16 084 146 261 > >
