Roomba and like devices.

My wife has mentioned getting one. We have mostly wood floors downstairs. Carpet is only in bedrooms.

She said her friends say they work good. Any thoughts? It is a pain to constantly sweep the floors.

Best thing ever! DO IT!

They do a pretty good job. If you have inside pets, you might be surprised at the amount of critter fur they’ll collect.

There’s nothing quite like finding where a roomba smeared dog barf all over your house.

Just make sure you get the one that self-empties

Poop is even worse. I look the house over and put them outside while ours runs.

Got one about two months ago. It's great. Of course it won't get 100% in tight corners or around / in between furniture legs, but it still does a very good job.

X2 on the dog hair.

I have a small 6hp, high CFM, Rigid shop vac that is a bare floor machine. You can see pet hair come from three feet away to it.

This ^

Ours is [censored] retarded. I got so tired of playing “find the Roomba” that we turned it off. The dumbass goes into a room, then gets lost, spends 3 hours cleaning that one room because it can’t find the open door and return to base. Or, it continuously gets stuck under the couch, where it knows is off limits, or gets stuck under the kitchen table amongst the chair legs.

Its tracks its self every time it leaves base. One night it left its base, made a direct path across the house into the laundry room, made 2 turns and ended up behind the open door, then called it quits.

Won’t replace your vacuum or broom but is definitely worth it as a supplement. It is disgusting how much stuff it picks up that you miss.

That’s pretty much the experience I had with mine.

kinda like joe "roomba" biden

I had one for years, it did a great job on my downtairs floors, I had 2 dogs. It lasted about 6 years and then my house got hit my lightening and fried it.

Now of days they have the one that will empty itself, I would get that one if I was buying new today.

My wife got one of the high end ones a couple of years back as a combo Christmas gift from her daughter and mother, it is still in the box that has never been opened.

We got one in November when Amazon was having a 1/2 price sale. Really surprised how good it works.

yep, and it was always the same dang room it happened in.

We have the Shark self emptying vacuum and it picks up quite a bit. I like it, keeps the house cleaner in between actually vacuuming. It doesnt completely replace a vacuum but it will still pick up quite a bit even right after you vacuum the whole house yourself.

We bought a newer self empty unit with lidar on it last year. Brand was Uoni (Amazon China crap). It's still going strong, have to take the brush out of it every couple weeks and cut the girls hair out of it. Other than that it's been nice. No dog barf/poop accidents yet......

We bought one and it seemed to require a PHD in vacuuming to set it's boundaries and all that crap. It's in the box somewhere or wife gave it away.

Our last one was a Shark brand. It was a POS so it got sent to the shop where it actually did a good job. It fell asleep between trailer tires and met an untimely death

Love watching videos with them rolling up on dog crap and it smears it everywhere. Epic!

I've had Roborock S5 for about 3 years now and it works well, even has a mop function but I rarely use it. My floors are dark and pet hair is pretty visible so before I always felt like I needed to sweep. Usually dump the can on this thing at night and hit start when I leave for for work in the morning.

We got the basic one (Roomba) for the little ranch house. 'Shoulda got the self-empty. Never could get the app to load and recognize it. (Hughesnet.) "She" and I have a love/hate relationship. I swear she does better when I threaten (at 2am) to take her outside and shoot her with the 12 ga. Mysterious error messages that I can't find a definition to occasionally. Never has enough juice to do the whole house, and it's a small house.

I bought a high end one about 18 months ago when Amazon had it significantly discounted. It is an EcoVacs Omni T10 that self empties and will mop when you put the rotary pads on it. It has clean and dirty water tanks that are easy to empty and fill. I use distilled water in it so there is no water scale in the machine or haze on the floor. I'm amazed at how much fuzz and dirt the thing picks up. I have a mix of carpet, tile and wood flooring. I don't have pets, but would highly recommend you get one that has avoidance detection to prevent the dog poop mess, if you have pets. Spare rollers, brushes and bags are cheap on Amazon. Be prepared to change bags frequently at first, because it goes where you likely don't clean regularly, (under chairs, couches and beds). Most of the time it will clean the whole house on a single charge, provided you have not set obstacles around the house that requires it to signifcantly deviate from its mapped paths. You will learn to keep your house picked up, so that charger cables and electrical cords don't wind up in the rotary brushes. Small grandkids leave small toys scattered that the thing will suck up. I also recommend cutting open the dust bag and checking for lost items (earings, jewelry, coins, marbles, puzzle pieces and small toys). If anyone has long hair, it will wind around the rotary beater bar, but this robot came with a cutter similar to a letter opener, which makes it easy to cut and remove the hair. I did have to put magnetic door stops in a couple of rooms so it couldn't get behind a door and shut itself in a room. Like some above said, it doesn't replace a vacuum but I don't use mine very often anymore. My robot cleans the whole house every week and the rooms I use regularly three times a week. Buy a good one and you won't regret it! Good luck

SIL told me Sat they were the best thing since sliced bread,

I think this is probably the norm for one. I just don't see how it cannot get hung up.

We purchased a roomba from Sam’s 3 years ago and are very pleased with what it does. We shut it down for the day whenever we leave home AND leave the dogs out , in case one of them has an accident. Ours keeps the dust and dander down considerably. Wife could sweep and mop in the morning and that afternoon when the sun goes down you could see the accumulation of dust on the floor. Now that the roomba runs daily, that is no longer an issue

Must set it up properly to run efficiently. Using the room dividers, and room labels will help speed up the process. Don't be afraid of technology......

Self empty? Where? how? I can see all kinds of problems with that.

We have one and I’m not real impressed. It gets hung up and we have to find it. I don’t have a problem with just vacuuming.

Like ours. We didn’t set boundaries just close a door if you don’t want it there. The dog poo/barf is a non issue if you don’t leave them in the house unattended. Legos bb’s etc is what trips ours up. Occasionally have to pull some pieces off and remove balls of hair. No regerts

I'm retired, but even I have better use for my time. Poor bastard.

If your dog regularly takes a dump inside your house, I'd work on that before I bought a roomba

Winner winner chicken dinner the least of your worries is dog hair

Same here. Got to run the Dyson every couple weeks and get the heavy dog hair