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MontanaMama

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8. I have a Roomba.
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 11:29 AM
Jan 2020

Got it at Costco. I think it works great for the most part. I agree with the post above that electrical cords and anything loose like rug fringe can be an issue. They’re more powerful than you think...ours sucked up my husband’s drivers license when it fell behind the dresser. We have all hard floors with area rugs and it does well with both of those. I love how it will get crumbs and crap under the toe kicks of kitchen cabinets.

We have pets including a dog with long hair and it does a pretty decent job of picking up the hair. Our vacuum will stop and play a sad music sound when the rollers need to have hair unwound from them. It’s about a 5 minute job to do that. I really like how it can go under couches, armoirs and beds to suck up dust. If I only used it for that, it would be worth it. Mine can do two largish rooms...about 2 hours of continuous cleaning before it needs to charge. My dogs hate the thing...so does the parrot. Oh, and if you’re OCD at all, don’t watch it do it’s thing...there’s no rhyme or reason to how it navigates...drives me nuts to watch it.

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