Does anybody have a Roomba?

moanymoany

I'm thinking about getting myself one for Christmas - but - it is very difficult to find out just how good they are.

One review said get the red one - can't find them in the UK!

That leaves the 530 and 560 ... I just don't know.

Help!

ivyleaf

What's a Roomba?

Penelope_Penguin

ivyleaf wrote: »

What's a Roomba?

was my reaction too, so I went to the University of Wikipedia It's a robotic vacuum cleaner. Can't see the point myself - it hardly takes any time to whizz round with a hoover It's the moving of furniture that makes hoovering a chore.

Penny. x

lauren_1

I think you are confused, dont you mean a ewbank?
LOL

The only gizmo i do is a slowcooker

princesstippytoes

It looks like a gimmick to me and a bit of a waste of money. If it's unavailable in the Uk you could find getting parts or repairs pricey. I'll stick with my hoover. Moany I thought you were one of the extreme moneysavers. :cool: Your the last person I'd have thought to be interested in something like that.

moanymoany

No, it's a robotic vacuum cleaner.

They are sold by Lakeland Plastics - just like the Remoska Cooker.

Magentasue

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

Can't see the point myself - it hardly takes any time to whizz round with a hoover

Penny. x

Can remember people having a similar attitude to TV remote controls when they were the latest thing and look at us now! Not for me either but this looks great for people who are unable to whizz round with a conventional vacuum cleaner.

moanymoany

princesstippytoes wrote: »

It looks like a gimmick to me and a bit of a waste of money. If it's unavailable in the Uk you could find getting parts or repairs pricey. I'll stick with my hoover. Moany I thought you were one of the extreme moneysavers. :cool: Your the last person I'd have thought to be interested in something like that.

Now is the time to hang my head in shame - I detest vacuuming. The Lakeland catalogue arrived today and I spotted it. Thought I'd see if anyone on here had one.

Will it help to maintain my reputation if I say we are having that good old wartime classic 'mock goose' for dinner, yesterday we had weezl's gnocchi and I have only bought one loaf of bread in over a year and that is when we were moving?

Pretty please ....

Justin_Scotland

they have the basic models in costco at the moment. I havent used the roomba but probably have a useful link that you will find handy

http://www.roombareview.com/
Its US based but has an international section in the forums.

I have the iRobot Scooba which is the floor mop version which is based on the roomba. The thing to bear in mind with both the roomba and the scooba is that although you can just set them off to run and clean up you do have to do some essential maintenance on them after each use. Emptying, cleaning threads from the brush bars so they dont jam up etc etc. So you do have to spend a couple of mins after each use. If I had mostly laminate floors rather than a mixture of rugs with tassels and thick carpet then a roomba would be considered. However the reviews I read about the roomba are also less than convincing about effectiveness of picking up dog and cat hairs.

I would only buy a roomba with the docking station so that it goes back and charges itself up when running low on charge.

There was a post on here a few months ago when Makro and costco first started selling them and I remember people saying they had bought them so someone must have more detailed knowledge than me on the roomba.

Penelope_Penguin

Magentasue wrote: »

this looks great for people who are unable to whizz round with a conventional vacuum cleaner.

Sorry, I meant to add to my post - whizzing roubnd with the hoover isn't too difficult, it's the moving of furniture that's the difficult bit I'll edit my original post.

Penny. x

Lizalu

MY friend has one of these and I'd have to warn against them. While they may be easy to use, they're not very effective at all... Very weak suction.