Alternative to a Roomba

[Deleted]

Does anyone have a robotic vacuum that's not a Roomba? Ours has officially died. I hate that the typical life span of a Roomba is 2-3 years, especially since they're so spendy.

Rec your non Roomba robotic vacuum please.

[fiddles]

Mine is called my husband

[Deleted]

My MIL got us the "Mint" because she knows how I hate doing housework. I don't know how much they cost, but I think it's maybe only for hard floors, not carpets. It works ok, not amazing, but decently to help prevent the massive kitteh fur tumbleweeds.

[Deleted]

Oct 4, 2012 11:33:22 GMT -5 fiddles said:

Mine is called my husband

LOL.

[niq]

There's someone on the MM board who uses one of the other brands.

Try costco? When we were at there they had the previous edition of the Roomba for $300. Made me feel like a sucker for paying full price.

[emyinpink]

There's one that were going to get from Amazon. I'll have to look up the brand and post it in a bit.

[larzhope]

me me me!!!! I LOVE the neato. we have a Roomba too and the Neato does a much much better job, especially transitioning from carpet to hardwood. I wish we could afford another one for our upstairs!

[joenali]

Woomba! The little pink robot that cleans your noony!!!

[Deleted]

Oct 4, 2012 21:38:43 GMT -5 larzhope said:

me me me!!!! I LOVE the neato. we have a Roomba too and the Neato does a much much better job, especially transitioning from carpet to hardwood. I wish we could afford another one for our upstairs!

What's the life span on the neato been like? I looked at it yesterday and it seems like a good alternative, but still spendy.

I'm mostly using it on hardwoods and a low (short?) pile berber type rug. Do you think it'll be able to get into those shorter fibers?

Thanks!

[Deleted]

Oct 4, 2012 22:30:06 GMT -5 joenali said:

Woomba! The little pink robot that cleans your noony!!!

Um, that sounds like a part of the body :-|

[picksthemusic]

Oct 4, 2012 11:33:22 GMT -5 fiddles said:

Mine is called my husband

Haha, this. I hate vacuuming, and so DH has said that any time vacuuming needs to be done, he's the man for the job.

[jennlin]

IK---it *is*. woomba is an SNL spoof.

[emyinpink]

This guy is the one were getting: www.amazon.com/Evolution-Robotics-Mint-Automatic-4200/dp/B00408PCEW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1349493807&sr=8-4&keywords=robot+vacuum

[Deleted]

Oct 5, 2012 22:23:55 GMT -5 @emyinpink said:

This guy is the one were getting: www.amazon.com/Evolution-Robotics-Mint-Automatic-4200/dp/B00408PCEW/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1349493807&sr=8-4&keywords=robot+vacuum

This one just does hardwoods, right? I got excited about this because i saw a commercial for it on tv and I thought it did both hardwoods and vacuumed, but maybe the models I looked at wasnt the right one.

[larzhope]

UW, We got it for our wedding (Sept 2011) and so far it's been great. Obviously it's only been a little over a year, but we run it 3-6 times per week on our entire downstairs, and no issues. I do think it will be able to get into low pile carpet. We have pretty cheap shitty carpet (can't wait to replace it!) and we are always amazed at how much stuff it picks up