Nobody wants to run a Roomba while they're still home, right?
We exclusively run ours when someone is home. It often gets stuck in certain areas and near specific furniture. We try to prevent it as much as we can but we just don't trust it enough to let it run without a little supervision.
Absolutely this. Roombas are like stupid puppies; you think you have the house roomba proof, only to come home to find it stuck in some obscure corner, whining pathetically.
Also, I have to clean up all the crap I leave on the floor before running it.
Why don't you fix those spots?
I have a couch that's like 1mm too low. The Roomba goes under it, but can't get back out. 3d printing a small "hat" for the Roomba prevents it from going under.
Once your house is Roomba proof, you're golden.
You probably don't have kids with Legos and other toys?
Personally mine runs more since it gets dirtier by being at home more.
Exactly this
You run it at night, right? That's when we run ours. And we got a robot vacuum during the pandemic because suddenly we were on those floors so much more that we got them dirty more and noticed the dirt more.
You run it... at night??? What kind of fresh hell is this?!?
Mine runs Friday mornings at 430 am in case I have people over Friday night and again Monday morning at 430am to clean up after the weekend. The 3/4 day schedule works well for me. And 430 is perfect because I'm usually asleep when it runs and it's never worked me up so it never bothers me.
Exactly. We just have it scheduled to not clean our bedroom at night, it does that midday when we're using the rest of the house or ad hoc.
Granted we have tile floors outside the bedroom so it's quieter plus we run a floor fan at night for noise, so that's probably why we aren't bothered by the sound.
You must have some cheap model.
Mines extremely loud because it's so powerful. It'll suck the dick right off you, if you let it.
Say, how did you come across this information?
It was consensual.
It'll suck the dick right off you, if you let it.
Heyy friend, so when should I drop by to totally-not-checkout your robo-vacuum?
Went up, needed some more friends at home
Spending time at home when you're not wiped... Huh never noticed how much of a pig I am I'll get a romba it'll help with the isolation too
Speak for yourself. DJ ROOMBA IN THE HOUSE!
Sure, it's most fun to run when you aren't at home, but it's very possible to run it while you're doing other chores.
Or just run it on a lower setting while you're watching TV.
Absolutely agree. My wife hates their noise so much, we run it once at weekend when go out. Or only in closed kitchen.
The noise really bothered me on our old model, but it broke recently and we replaced it with a different brand. I cannot believe how quiet the new one is. I think it's less powerful but it's worth it just for the noise. It's not just the suction that's quieter either, it also runs into walls/obstacles much less aggressively.
Might be something to look into when/if you decide to replace yours! There's probably a model out there that won't bug your wife as much.
Which one did you get?