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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Agree. I thought they were overrated until we got one. They are like pets that clean. Ours has a cute punny name.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What’s it’s name? I named mine “Mr. Roombastic”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That is fantastic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Paul Roombins

(In honor of Paul Reubens)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Domo arigato, Mr. Roomboto

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ditto. Ours is called Tony, after the character Suckboy Tony from American Dad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Mine is called Compsognathus. He's my little scavenger and fits with a bunch of my Jurassic Park memorabilia.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine is super unreliable, plus what takes him 2 hours, I can get done in 30 minutes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's 30 minutes that I don't have to spend vacuuming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Robot vacuums are great, but my Roomba is incredibly unreliable. I’m buying Roborock next time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Apparently some people have issues with it but ours has been running pretty steadily every morning for the last 1.5 year or so. At some point the charging contacts were a bit dull and it started giving errors but otherwise the maintenance is minimal.

Oh but I can heavily recommend buy extra filters and when doing a bit more thorough clean of the dustbin just vacuum out the filter with another strong vacuum, or slap it on the floor a couple times to really get the dust out. Doing this and the suckpower increases tremendously and it also seems to more efficiently pack the dust in the bin by just having stronger suction, i guess