i’m heading home soon and was contemplating buying a roomba for our polished wooden floors.
has anyone had any experiences with them? how do they handle carpet / wood floors?
thanks
My Mom got one as a gift. She said it was nearly useless. Not enough suction according to her.
How much space can they clean?
I’ve read of spaces as big as 20’x20’ but I’m not sure… I’m looking for one to clean our school floors at night (it’s all one level only)… and our school is smallish…
Kenneth
What’s a roomba? is it a vacuum cleaner??
In any case get a shop vac or something similar (That 3000nt toshiba wet/dry vac is quite good) because no stupid bags to replace (there’s a filter that can be cleaned and dried then reused) and it will suck anything, including flooded bathrooms (or BIG ASS SPIDERS, although you will see it again when emptying out the vac…)
hi, found this thread by search, I’m thinking about getting one for my place, anybody used it yet? I have wooden floor and the dust down here in K-town is horrible
Google ‘roomba review’:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=roomba+review&btnG=Google+Search
And oh… ignore the commercial so-called “reviews”.
My parents briefly tried one and it seems pretty ineffective although it looks cool…
I think they generally don’t work on carpet, but there may be special carpet cleaning ones.
You’re probably better off just hiring a maid once a week for 2-3 hours - it can’t be that expensive…
I am using one for over 1 year now. However, it is quite worn out now speaking of mechanics, but still works. Had seen the repair shop [but cheap and fast and good] twice, though.
As I only use it on tiles, I am not sure for carpets. Does its job on tiles.
After 7-8 month the brakes work uneven, so it jumped down the stairs (normally it stops there) which caused it to need repair once.
And I left it always on the charger, as the manual says, but that had caused the charging motherboard inside it to fuse, so now I only charge it when needed.