Thread: Robotic Vacuum Cleaners

Thought i'd drop a quick update in here for those looking around in the future.

We have had 'Beastie' as he is known, for around 3 months now and my partners comment of 'It's a game changer' says it all. We haven't manually vacuumed or mopped the main living areas since he's been in action. There has also been an update which allows for a 'double mop' - which runs over the same area twice each pass and this has greatly improved the mopping of the unit. We are about to see how it tackles 2 pugs who are about to shed their Winter coats, so that will be its biggest test, but as I said to my partner - it it can't keep up we can program it to come out twice a day instead of the once daily it does now.

The only manual vacuuming done now is a bit here and there in the bedrooms, etc as needed - we only get beastie to go into those areas once a week.

Anyway it's a solid 10/10 for me on this unit - I can highly recommend it. Remembering that we don't have kids in the house, have hard floors throughout - with a couple of rugs here and there and there is no general clutter, etc - your mileage may vary.

Thanks for the update. Keen to hear how it goes with the dogs

On the back of this thread we recently bought a Roomba E5. Fantastic bit of kit, works well with Groodle hair and is relatively quiet. Has an app which doesn't do much other than to alert me when it gets struck under the bed.

I now do the vacuuming each week while SWMBO is at work and I'm working from home. She scoffs.......... but I'm taking the credit for housework duties.

Originally Posted by WhiteD3

On the back of this thread we recently bought a Roomba E5. Fantastic bit of kit, works well with Groodle hair and is relatively quiet. Has an app which doesn't do much other than to alert me when it gets struck under the bed.

I now do the vacuuming each week while SWMBO is at work and I'm working from home. She scoffs.......... but I'm taking the credit for housework duties.

I do it more than weekly in three levels. Chairs up. Mop weekly and I'm still told I do no house work

Well the Eufy vacuum here went back for a 2nd time as it just cycled through endless "rotary brush stuck" errors. I can only assume they had a faulty batch of brush motors. This time it finally came back as "unrepairable". I'm guessing they can't get stock of the brush motors that aren't faulty at the moment.

Anyway, I got the Ecovacs Deebot T8 as recommended here. It is vastly superior with its avoidance ... though can still get caught out with obstacles that aren't yet defined in its firmware. I'm betting it gets better and better all the time. Eg: if I leave the doors open to the kids bedroom. It can get about a meter in .... Then it just stops ... takes a good look around and decides "not a hope in hell", cleans the 1 meter in the doorway and leaves the room. The eufy would have just gone into the room and got instantly tangled in the cloths, tissues, toys, legos, etc....

The only real issue I have with it is the battery capacity seem to be tiny compared to the Eufy. I haven't managed to even try the mop yet... It took me several attempts to create a map. It doesn't have the capacity to map the whole --not large-- house on one charge, and by default it just returns to base for charging. You have to find the switch in the advanced setting that tell it to go off and finish cleaning when its charged.... until you do this you never have a map, so can't do much.

Now the problem with the battery capacity is .... By the time I remember to put it on ... its usually 11:00am ... it take an hour or two to clean.... at this point its dead flat, so recharges for several hours.... then goes and does the last bit of the house (it would do 95% of the house on the one charge)..... By now the kids are home and in the way moving stuff around . So you can't set it going as a mop. Several times I've tried to mop the following day, but the floors are far to dirty again .... so it looks like I will either have to sweep or mop .... 'cos its going to struggle to do both in a day due to battery capacity.

differences:
--both robot vacuum ... vacuum incredibly well... I'd say better than our big ducted vacuum system with air powered rotary brush head.
--the ecovac is vastly superior iwth its avoidance of obstacles.
--the eufy is much quieter
--the eufy has MUCH better battery life
--I'm hoping the ecovac is as good as described at mopping. Someday hopefully I'll get to try

seeya,
shane L.

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

I do it more than weekly in three levels. Chairs up. Mop weekly and I'm still told I do no house work

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Originally Posted by Homestar

Thought i'd drop a quick update in here for those looking around in the future.

We have had 'Beastie' as he is known, for around 3 months now and my partners comment of 'It's a game changer' says it all. We haven't manually vacuumed or mopped the main living areas since he's been in action. There has also been an update which allows for a 'double mop' - which runs over the same area twice each pass and this has greatly improved the mopping of the unit. We are about to see how it tackles 2 pugs who are about to shed their Winter coats, so that will be its biggest test, but as I said to my partner - it it can't keep up we can program it to come out twice a day instead of the once daily it does now.

The only manual vacuuming done now is a bit here and there in the bedrooms, etc as needed - we only get beastie to go into those areas once a week.

Anyway it's a solid 10/10 for me on this unit - I can highly recommend it. Remembering that we don't have kids in the house, have hard floors throughout - with a couple of rugs here and there and there is no general clutter, etc - your mileage may vary.

It sounds like the power mop is only single use. Did you find somewhere to buy them by the hundred cheaply ?