@yakkoTDI oh i vacuum all the time. Thanks to meh, i have 2 extra shark rockets to add to the navigator i already had (bought a purple one as a small backup, then scored a blue one in an irk). My carpet was a cheap one when it was installed 15 years ago, and we have 3 kids, cats, and now a puppy. I shampoo it a lot, too, but i just know its gotta be gross below the surface by now.
@jnicholson0619@yakkoTDI
Your so lucky! That’s like wining the lottery. That’s the ultimate irk score for me, I waiting for them to go on sale this spring. I want the cordless one with the LED lights on the front and might even get the pet one (even though I don’t have pets) bc I heard the suction was better and the roll bar in bottom is different as it doesn’t allow hair to get trapped (I find my hair under the couch when I sweep all the time).
@Star2236@yakkoTDI actually, one of the robot vacuums i have (a referb shark), was in an irk as well. Works better than the ones i actually purchased. But, they all seem to not do as well on carpet. And im always afraid a kid will leave a sock laying around and itll get sucked up and break it. Lol! I manage to score a lot of irks, and have had a few awesome ones, and a ton of really garbage ones. the rockets are very meh… corded, which is fine, but theyre motor heavy (at the hand), not roller heavy (at the floor)… so the contact to the floor is not as good. Good for light areas, or hard floors (i use them mostly in the bathroom and kitchen), but i stick to my navigator for carpets. Its bottom heavy and gets good floor contact.
@jnicholson0619@yakkoTDI
Yeah I just want it for the areas with the hardwood and tile and to the couches, stairs, curtains etc. I have a regular vacuum that I use in the bedrooms with carpet but It’s a pain in the ass to do on the floors and doesn’t get up against the baseboards really well without the sucker.
Our floors are too obstacle-enriched; a robot vacuum would have a nervous breakdown, and then we’d be getting visits from the AI Protective Services people asking all kinds of questions, and the other devices would go on strike claiming abuse, and before you know it, we’d be down to a dial telephone and a record player.
@werehatrack Yeah. If I want to vacuum, 80% of the job is picking stuff up and putting it away so I can run the vacuum. Actually pushing the thing around is easy and kind of satisfying.
When they have a robot that will do the first 80% of the job I’ll look into them again.
@werehatrack We have many obstacles also, so I was skeptical that a robot could manage to find its way around. I was surprised to see the new Roomba do a credible job of navigating the maze. A side benefit is that avoiding the wrath of the Robot Master motivates us to do a better job of picking up the transient items that seem to collect at the edges of the rooms.
@cenots@werehatrack
Me, my boyfriend is so ocd that anytime anything is out of place for more than a day I get bitched at to put it away. He’s very neurotic.
Several reasons:
I had one in the past (one of the first Roombas), but it wasn’t smart enough to leave during the house fire;
I wasn’t that impressed with it anyway – its random path was very inefficient and sometimes it couldn’t find its way back to recharge soon enough (again, not very smart IMO);
It didn’t do much good with pet hair on the floor, just chased it around;
My dog then didn’t like it and my dog now would probably kill it;
I think it stole from me – If I dropped a screw or nut on the floor, I 'd never see it again and I didn’t like digging around in its bowels;
And the top reason,
It couldn’t pass the reCaptcha test.
I would have more use for a robot mop that would keep the kitchen floor spotless.
@katbyter Same for me. I had a Roomba, and it just didn’t work that well with our somewhat cluttered space. Plus cleaning the pet hair out of the brush after it ran was harder than non-robotic vacuuming would have been.
@brennyn I don’t have hair that long, mine is 5 inches past my shoulders. But I have a lot of it. I have to rake the floor before I vacuum because of my hair. I’m sure it would kill robot vacuums.
I don’t have one but one of my renters does. We don’t use it.
I’m old fashioned I guess, I have tile through the whole house but I just sweep with a regular broom. My renters use a vacuum (not the robot one). I use a mop and bucket, they use a steamer thing.
We had a Roomba, I think we got it from woooooot in 2006 or 07. The battery didn’t last very long so we traded it for a large box of specialty beers and wines. It was ok, but not great. We are boujee now and have a cleaning service come to the house once every other week to vacuum, mop and other light cleaning. It supports the local economy and is way better than a roomba.
We had a Roomba years ago because we got it for $100 cheaper than the current sale at the time cuz someone had left the black Friday sign up. I swore I would never get one, but my wife insisted and at that price it was worth a shot. Fast forward 4 years later, we’ve since upgraded to a Deebot T8 (got it on Prime Day) and it was worth every penny of it’s ridiculous (even after a 30% discount) price tag. It’s got no-go zones that we can adjust on the fly for when we have our Christmas tree up. I am officially a convert.
I live alone without a pet and am an overall neat person, so my mostly-hardwood floors frankly don’t get that much stuff on them. I do a quick pass with my Shark every couple weeks to get crumbs and a water-only mop every couple months to get dust. My place also has two floors, so I’d have to buy two units to get the full benefit.
I have several friends who own robotic vacuums, and they all seem to rate their experiences as “meh.” Comments have included leaving obvious stuff on the floor, not being able to navigate simple obstacles, and annoyingly low capacity for debris.
Because they suck.
/giphy rug tassels
Because nature abhors a vacuum, and so do my cats.
3 actually. And I don’t use any of them.
I plan on it tho, once I rip out this nasty carpet
@jnicholson0619 Maybe if you vacuumed the carpet wouldn’t be nasty.
@yakkoTDI oh i vacuum all the time. Thanks to meh, i have 2 extra shark rockets to add to the navigator i already had (bought a purple one as a small backup, then scored a blue one in an irk). My carpet was a cheap one when it was installed 15 years ago, and we have 3 kids, cats, and now a puppy. I shampoo it a lot, too, but i just know its gotta be gross below the surface by now.
@jnicholson0619 @yakkoTDI
Your so lucky! That’s like wining the lottery. That’s the ultimate irk score for me, I waiting for them to go on sale this spring. I want the cordless one with the LED lights on the front and might even get the pet one (even though I don’t have pets) bc I heard the suction was better and the roll bar in bottom is different as it doesn’t allow hair to get trapped (I find my hair under the couch when I sweep all the time).
@Star2236 @yakkoTDI actually, one of the robot vacuums i have (a referb shark), was in an irk as well. Works better than the ones i actually purchased. But, they all seem to not do as well on carpet. And im always afraid a kid will leave a sock laying around and itll get sucked up and break it. Lol! I manage to score a lot of irks, and have had a few awesome ones, and a ton of really garbage ones.
the rockets are very meh… corded, which is fine, but theyre motor heavy (at the hand), not roller heavy (at the floor)… so the contact to the floor is not as good. Good for light areas, or hard floors (i use them mostly in the bathroom and kitchen), but i stick to my navigator for carpets. Its bottom heavy and gets good floor contact.
KRULL! A SKULL! BRETT HULL! AWESOME!
@jnicholson0619 @yakkoTDI
Yeah I just want it for the areas with the hardwood and tile and to the couches, stairs, curtains etc. I have a regular vacuum that I use in the bedrooms with carpet but It’s a pain in the ass to do on the floors and doesn’t get up against the baseboards really well without the sucker.
@jnicholson0619 Holy carp! Your house is about to become a total vacuum!
Our floors are too obstacle-enriched; a robot vacuum would have a nervous breakdown, and then we’d be getting visits from the AI Protective Services people asking all kinds of questions, and the other devices would go on strike claiming abuse, and before you know it, we’d be down to a dial telephone and a record player.
@werehatrack this exactly. Who has floors so open a robot can traverse unscathed ?
@werehatrack Yeah. If I want to vacuum, 80% of the job is picking stuff up and putting it away so I can run the vacuum. Actually pushing the thing around is easy and kind of satisfying.
When they have a robot that will do the first 80% of the job I’ll look into them again.
@werehatrack We have many obstacles also, so I was skeptical that a robot could manage to find its way around. I was surprised to see the new Roomba do a credible job of navigating the maze. A side benefit is that avoiding the wrath of the Robot Master motivates us to do a better job of picking up the transient items that seem to collect at the edges of the rooms.
@cenots @werehatrack
Me, my boyfriend is so ocd that anytime anything is out of place for more than a day I get bitched at to put it away. He’s very neurotic.
have one, a eufy, don’t use it. it gets stuck on things
Several reasons:
I had one in the past (one of the first Roombas), but it wasn’t smart enough to leave during the house fire;
I wasn’t that impressed with it anyway – its random path was very inefficient and sometimes it couldn’t find its way back to recharge soon enough (again, not very smart IMO);
It didn’t do much good with pet hair on the floor, just chased it around;
My dog then didn’t like it and my dog now would probably kill it;
I think it stole from me – If I dropped a screw or nut on the floor, I 'd never see it again and I didn’t like digging around in its bowels;
And the top reason,
It couldn’t pass the reCaptcha test.
I would have more use for a robot mop that would keep the kitchen floor spotless.
As a fellow robot, I understand your pain.
@phendrick robot kitchen mop a.k.a. Dog
@phendrick
A robot mop would be great.
I had a neato, SNES style. But I moved to a theyre floor home and just haul the Dyson stick between floors now.
I have one, and it gave up. Yes, my home is that dirty.
The one I had eons ago didn’t work very well, and I have too much stuff on the floor.
@katbyter Same for me. I had a Roomba, and it just didn’t work that well with our somewhat cluttered space. Plus cleaning the pet hair out of the brush after it ran was harder than non-robotic vacuuming would have been.
Hello! No option for hoarders? This is meh, you know.
Meh…
I have hair that’s long enough that I could use it to wipe my butt in an emergency. Vacuums with a brush just clog instantly.
@brennyn I don’t have hair that long, mine is 5 inches past my shoulders. But I have a lot of it. I have to rake the floor before I vacuum because of my hair. I’m sure it would kill robot vacuums.
What would a robot vacuum do if you lived in a place that had dirt floors???
@sicc574 It would die, tired and alone, confused. Questioning its existence…
@sicc574 You might come home to find a new basement.
I have one. It’s in the Attic in a box.
I don’t have one but one of my renters does. We don’t use it.
I’m old fashioned I guess, I have tile through the whole house but I just sweep with a regular broom. My renters use a vacuum (not the robot one). I use a mop and bucket, they use a steamer thing.
We had a Roomba, I think we got it from woooooot in 2006 or 07. The battery didn’t last very long so we traded it for a large box of specialty beers and wines. It was ok, but not great. We are boujee now and have a cleaning service come to the house once every other week to vacuum, mop and other light cleaning. It supports the local economy and is way better than a roomba.
@xenophod we had a roomba and bought an extended battery like it was 2006 and I had an HTC android. It did the trick.
@xenophod, I couldn’t with mopping every other week. My floors are swept at minimum once a week (usually twice) and mopped once week.
We had a Roomba years ago because we got it for $100 cheaper than the current sale at the time cuz someone had left the black Friday sign up. I swore I would never get one, but my wife insisted and at that price it was worth a shot. Fast forward 4 years later, we’ve since upgraded to a Deebot T8 (got it on Prime Day) and it was worth every penny of it’s ridiculous (even after a 30% discount) price tag. It’s got no-go zones that we can adjust on the fly for when we have our Christmas tree up. I am officially a convert.
I live alone without a pet and am an overall neat person, so my mostly-hardwood floors frankly don’t get that much stuff on them. I do a quick pass with my Shark every couple weeks to get crumbs and a water-only mop every couple months to get dust. My place also has two floors, so I’d have to buy two units to get the full benefit.
I have several friends who own robotic vacuums, and they all seem to rate their experiences as “meh.” Comments have included leaving obvious stuff on the floor, not being able to navigate simple obstacles, and annoyingly low capacity for debris.
Because my ex kept it in the breakup even though I spent $490
Our house is all wood floors, so it gets swiffered instead of vacuumed.
My housekeeper is the best and I’d rather keep paying her to clean my house.
Because meh sent me a broken/returned one in a irk.
Because I’ve a mixture of floor coverings and stairs , plus too many obstacles.