samnavy

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I have to knock out her birthday and Mothers day this month, and while a new vacuum is the punchline of many a good joke, I'm serious.

Amazon and YT are making this fairly easy. I originally thought Roomba or Samsung, but the 3000+ 4.5star reviews for the Eufy Robovac have me thinking otherwise. Mandatory requirements are Alexa enabled and ability to transition from hardwood to rugs. I'm about ready to order.

Also getting our first family pics done here on the island... any other good suggestions for Mothers Day or mid-40's birthday? Gotta buy ASAP, either Prime, Target, or Walmart to get here in time.

fooger03

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I had a Bobsweep Pethair robot vacuum until today.

For the last 3 weeks or so it's run every single weekday at 10am, and only on a single day did it make it back to the charging station unassisted. 3 times the battery ran out while it was trying to get back to the dock, about 6 times it stopped vacuuming for an error code (2 of those were what I would consider legit, the other 4 or so were...it just stopped) and the other half of the time it would get stuck under a piece of furniture during the vacuum cycle and continue to spin its grippy rubber wheels and vacuum brush on the carpet, effectively tearing up the few carpet fibers that it spent significant time spinning on. I spent a ton of time in the mornings before work "vacuum proofing" the house, but even when I intentionally put obstacles (shoes) in front of the furniture that it would get stuck under, it continued to find creative ways to get stuck under said furniture.

I say I "had one until today...I was driving home today and pulling into the neighborhood when some selfish c.unt about got me killed by making a blind left turn from my neigborhood onto the main road as I was trying to make the timed left turn from the main road into the neighborhood after one car but with just enough time to calmly make my turn before the next oncoming car passed the intersection, needless to say, I was quite ragey. I had to slam on the brakes midway through my left turn to avoid hitting the bastard which left me stopped in the oncoming traffic lane. The driver seemed completely ignorant to my blaring horn as he made *his* left hand turn. You can truly tell who the c.unt drivers are on the first really beautiful day of spring around here.

When I got home moments later, the vacuum was stuck beneath the back of the couch again, it had somehow found its way through about 6 strategically placed vacuum-proofing shoes at the back of the couch in order to get stuck. I gave it a solid swift kick to dislodge it from the couch before picking it up, raising it over my head, and slamming it down on the kitchen floor as hard as I could, watching it shatter into 30 pieces or so in a magical puff of vacuum dust. It has been the single most satisfying moment of my week.

My recommendation: get a "smart" robot vacuum or don't buy one at all. If you're dead set on buying one and you can't afford the roomba 980, then you can't afford to play the robot vacuum game unless you are vacuuming a square room without any furniture, doors, rugs, floor transitions, etc. If you've got something against the roomba 980, then you're welcome to spring for the dyson 360 eye, though word has it that you're getting less performance for more money.

Last word of advice: don't even think about it if you've got a toddler that can't put their toys away yet. I'm glad that I'll no longer spend 10 minutes every morning putting away my toddler's ****, picking up blankets, vacuum-proofing the house, etc. That's nearly an hour of my life every week that I get back. I'll probably be putting off my next robot vacuum purchase for at least 10 years or so.

PatCleary

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Stealth97

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My six year old is obsessed with all things vacuuming. He and I have spent a ton of time on robot vacuum reviews, he's basically a walking infomercial... anyhow I think the Neato is absolutely the way to go. It digs into the corners thanks to its unique shape. It's loud, but has more power than the Roomba and does a better job chosing a more efficient path, while the roomba will often hit the same place multiple times.

We/he already have 5 or six vacuums, a rainbow, a hoover, a few dirt devils, shop vac, and a 12v job for the cars. I sure as hell am not buying another.

Mobius

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Neato Botvac Connected.

* doesn't care about lighting, or patterns on carpets, uses laser nav.
* transitions over carpet edges, fireplace surrounds, etc with good success
* lasers
* took care of the hair from my two fluffy dogs without incident
* multiroom, if the battery runs low, it will navigate back to the charger, recharge, then resume where it left off
* gives you a map of the covered areas after vacuuming is done on the app on your smartphone
* lasers!
* is D-shaped instead of round, and has a little spinny brush on one D corner to get into corners of the room

A++ would buy again.

sixshooter

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Any known problems with cat toys or extension cords?

wackbards

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I have two German Shepherds. No brand or model has even barely kept up with the dog hair. The dust bins are just miniscule.

fooger03

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On its first attempt at vacuuming my house, my robo vac partially shredded my wife's Surface Pro power cord. That pretty much summed up my remaining time of ownership. It did have a pretty sizeable dust-bin though - apparently 'colossal' could be used to describe the Bobsweep Pethair's dust-bin when comparing it against other robot vacuums.

New Dyson V10 doesn't get stuck under couches, doesn't eat extension cables, doesn't throw error codes...also, it does stairs, cars, rugs, mattresses, ceiling fans, shelves, dust-bunnies... pretty much anything I can throw it at. I try not to throw it at stuff though - throwing vacuums, while satisfying, has tended to make things dirtier for me, not cleaner.

I did learn one critical thing when I office-spaced my robo-vac...there's WAAAYYY more room inside there for more tech, be it additional battery capacity, stronger motor, more sensors, a small child or mouse-pilot, or hell, they could have made the whole thing a half inch shorter and stuffed a burrito oven or single serve beer fridge in there.

sixshooter

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So does Consuela, and she'll iron my shirts too. She's never been stuck under the couch. And Roombas don't clean toilets unless they're broken.

Okay, to be honest it was difficult to get her to stop eating my extension cords initially.

Mobius

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I had an 85lb Leonberger/Golden Retriever mix, and a 65lb Golden Retriever. Both quite fuzzy and fluffy. The mix in particular had that superfine downy undercoat. The first vacuum of the house did require multiple bin empties. After that, though, it would do the main floor without issue, especially if we kept to the once-daily schedule. I'm impressed with the amount of crap it can suck into the admittedly not so large bin.

Pro tip - the filter that services the bin, they recommend you replace that every couple months at least. After 4 months, I finally took a good look at it. It was stuffed with fine particulate, and with dog hair that had managed to get through the initial screen and trapped between it and the actual filter media. 10 minutes with compressed air, and voila! it looked almost good as new.

Edit: I say "had" because the mix passed April 30th. Cancer finally caught up to his refusal to admit he had cancer (2 years after initial diagnosis).

z31maniac

This is relevant to my interests.

We have two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, a Pit Bull, and a cat. It seems no amount of vacuuming/sweeping/dusting, will keep dog hair from getting everywhere. Including the master bath, which is on the other side of the master bedroom, which we don't allow any of the animals in.