4 ms·

>Still beats manually vacuuming though For me main cost of vacuuming is prep work not the actual task of vaccuming. Picking up cat toy string, feather toys, ki

>Still beats manually vacuuming though For me main cost of vacuuming is prep work not the actual task of vaccuming. Picking up cat toy string, feather toys, kids legos, random one of things. The actual act of vacuuming is fairly simple and enjoyable. So I don't get how roomba is useful. Doesn't your roomba choke on charger wires, toys, hair ect ? I have a neato that I don't use for these reasons.

akgerber 9y ago
For me, the Roomba is a forcing function to keep spaces neat enough for it to work. Which is useful.
SurrealSoul 9y ago
Roomba comes with this little IR laser that says "hey stupid machine don't go here". I also have some small cardboard cutouts that prevent it going somewhere where it can royally destroy itself. Then it just whirls around and picks up the hair and dust
- dominotw 9y ago
  >hey stupid machine don't go here Wish I could also tell my kids and pets that :D
imglorp 9y ago
Plus, sometimes you have to go around and rescue the bot wherever it got stuck or tangled in something. If you weren't present you might have to go looking under couches to find it and carry it back to charge. On top of that, you still have to empty the bot's dust bin and spend a good ten minutes removing the roller and cutting out the tangled hair and string from it. If it could automate more of these steps it would be more compelling.
- dominotw 9y ago
  This is my experience too. My neato gets messed up on longhair stuck in its wheels almost everytime. I have spend a good chunk of time removing stuck hair from its wheels. I am puzzled by people who say "beats manually vacuuming", how?
PeterisP 9y ago
Not all houses have toys strewn around them, many don't, and those kind of people (single or dual income people with no kids, possibly no pets, little free time) are the prime audience of roombas because for them it works great.

akgerber 9y ago

For me, the Roomba is a forcing function to keep spaces neat enough for it to work. Which is useful.

SurrealSoul 9y ago

Roomba comes with this little IR laser that says "hey stupid machine don't go here". I also have some small cardboard cutouts that prevent it going somewhere where it can royally destroy itself. Then it just whirls around and picks up the hair and dust

dominotw 9y ago
>hey stupid machine don't go here Wish I could also tell my kids and pets that :D

imglorp 9y ago

Plus, sometimes you have to go around and rescue the bot wherever it got stuck or tangled in something. If you weren't present you might have to go looking under couches to find it and carry it back to charge. On top of that, you still have to empty the bot's dust bin and spend a good ten minutes removing the roller and cutting out the tangled hair and string from it. If it could automate more of these steps it would be more compelling.

dominotw 9y ago
This is my experience too. My neato gets messed up on longhair stuck in its wheels almost everytime. I have spend a good chunk of time removing stuck hair from its wheels. I am puzzled by people who say "beats manually vacuuming", how?

PeterisP 9y ago

Not all houses have toys strewn around them, many don't, and those kind of people (single or dual income people with no kids, possibly no pets, little free time) are the prime audience of roombas because for them it works great.