a’loo Roomba
Meet my little friend.
We bought this on clearance about a year ago and we just used it for the first time this week. It had just been sitting over in the corner, with a slight intimidating air, all by it’s robot self. What will happen when we use it? Will it change our lives? I don’t know if I’m ready for that. Let’s wait. Finally, with all the rain this spring and new kitten in the house there is all this extra dirt and grass pet hair being tracked around our downstairs, I couldn’t take it any longer. When Jef turned it on for the first time, it buzzed in a random, drunken path in the middle of the room, bouncing off the walls and the coffee table. I sat crouched on the couch w/ the cat, wide-eyed and tense. “Shut if off. It’s freaking me out.”
The nice thing is that you turn it on when you leave the house and it runs a 60 or 120 minute cycle and then puts itself back on it’s own charging dock. I was all kinds of skeptical, but damn if the house didn’t actually look freshly vacuumed when I got home. This really isn’t made for carpet, so we’ll only use it downstairs where it’s hardwood and tile. We also have a large jute rug and it worked like a charm on it.
The best thing? Satisfies both the geek AND the house-girlfriend in me.
May 10th, 2007 at 10:27 am
I have one and love it!! Why would you think it’s not made for carpet? I’ve heard a lot of folks complain that it does better on carpet than on hard surfaces due to its propensity to fling stuff around with its little whisking brush. The only kind of rugs I’ve had problems with are really thick ones. My only real complaint is that if you’re slobby like us you can’t really leave it running on its own since it might get caught on random power cables and shoelaces… A word of advice–make sure you are meticulous about cleaning its brushes and stuff, or it will get finicky on you :) Have fun!
May 10th, 2007 at 10:54 am
OOhhhhh really. Interesting. I had read some reviews when we first bought it (back in the day) that said it wasn’t very good on carpet. Now I’ll definitely give it a try. Jef cleaned it out this morning after just the one use and said it was all kinds of full, so we’ll definitely keep it clean. Our carpet isn’t really thick, but I just didn’t think it had the power. I think it has a sensor for cables, btw. Not to avoid them, but to gun for them. Mine went RIGHT for them as soon as we turned it on. “Oh crap, pick those up, pick those uuuupp!” How did it know?!