Roomba: any thoughts?

[westcoastvol]

It's got a TiVo-esque cult-like following. I was thinking of getting one to chase after dog hair.

Anyone drank the Kool-Aid or spat it out?

 

[The Big Ragu]

I have one. Thing is awesome. My apartment picks up all kinds of city-living crap. That thing just zips around the place doing it's job. It has these little brushes on the side that removes the dirt from the baseboard of the wall and pulls it out and then the vacuum eats it up. I really love that thing. One of my best investments ever.

 

[HC]

Ragu ... how are they in a crowded space ... furniture, TV, etc.

 

[OTD]

I was wondering how one of those would get along with my dog. I think I'd have to get doggie downers for her after a week of Roomba.

 

[Perry White]

I'm curious about how well it works, especially on wood floors.

 

[Jake_Taylor]

I like my Roomba, even if I don't run it enough. It does a great job on heavy carpet and will pick up little things on hard floors. The also have version with water for cleaning hard floors.

 

[Hurricane J]

One of my favorite things on earth, following Mrs. J. and the two dogs, of course. We've had one for a little more than a year. At first the dogs were curious and wanted to play with it or they ran away from it. Now they don't really care much about it. And, yes, it works well on the wood floors.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Ragu ... how are they in a crowded space ... furniture, TV, etc.

I've had a tough time with mine.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I'll answer multiple posts with one...

My place doesn't have a whole lot of stuff in it. I live like an 18-year-old. Barely any furniture. So I haven't had huge issues. If you have something that doesn't leave it enough space to get around, it is going to bump into it, back off and head in the other direction. It won't be able to get into cramped areas that are smaller than the Roomba itself.

As for hardwood floors, it does really well on mine.

 

[Killick]

Can never ever hear about this marvelous little tool without thinking of "Woomba: The Little Pink Robot that Cleans Your Noonie."

 

[Football_Bat]

Can never ever hear about this marvelous little tool without thinking of "Woomba: The Little Pink Robot that Cleans Your Noonie."

I was thinking the exact same thing. The look on Tina Fey's face is priceless.

And it's not noonie! It's Nuuuuni!

Oh, wrong skit ...

 

[Killick]

That silence you hear is SportsJournalists.com masturbation nation contemplating Tina Fey's noonie.

 

[donnie23]

My thought is that Roomba is my nickname for my significant other. This is because she tends to walk in one direction with her head in the clouds until acted upon by an outside force, such as a wall or nudge on the shoulder. Spacy, but I love her.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

I got one about 6 months ago and love it. It works far better than I expected. My place is mostly hardwood and it's great to walk around with bare feet and not always be stepping on crumbs and the random flotsam that always seems to collect (I also live on the beach with a dog, so it's otherwise impossible to keep clean).

The only caution is that you don't have an expectation that you're going to bring it home and set it down and be done vacuuming forever. The unit itself takes a little maintenance and you'll still need to actually hard-core vacuum once in a while.

I recommend the model that has the programmable remote, so you can set it to run like three times a week when you're gone. Then you just come home to a magically clean house. That model, BTW, runs at least $50 cheaper at Costco than regular retail.

 

[User 1019]

Can never ever hear about this marvelous little tool without thinking of "Woomba: The Little Pink Robot that Cleans Your Noonie."

That was absolutely my first thought.