• weariedfae@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Agree. I thought they were overrated until we got one. They are like pets that clean. Ours has a cute punny name.

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      1 year ago

      Robot vacuums and mops? Sure. But iRobot devices (including Roomba)? I have my doubts. The robots seem to just raise errors all the time for no specific reason.

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      1 year ago

      Mine is super unreliable, plus what takes him 2 hours, I can get done in 30 minutes.

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      Agreed. Apparently some people have issues with it but ours has been running pretty steadily every morning for the last 1.5 year or so. At some point the charging contacts were a bit dull and it started giving errors but otherwise the maintenance is minimal.

      Oh but I can heavily recommend buy extra filters and when doing a bit more thorough clean of the dustbin just vacuum out the filter with another strong vacuum, or slap it on the floor a couple times to really get the dust out. Doing this and the suckpower increases tremendously and it also seems to more efficiently pack the dust in the bin by just having stronger suction, i guess

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      1 year ago

      Robot vacuums are great, but my Roomba is incredibly unreliable. I’m buying Roborock next time.