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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Roomba ?
I know someone was asking about this the other day. Now I am really interested as I am constantly vacuuming up pet hair tumbles. I guess I am looking for recs for which one to get and also wondering about having to pick things up off the floor prior to letting it run. Our living room is also a play area and has many larger toys...would I need to move them all? Also, what happens when it gets to the dining room table? Should I move the chairs away so it can get under there, will it? I guess I am having a hard time figuring how well it will clean and if it is worth it...sorry rambling over-tired mom...
Re: Roomba ?
I loved mine. Note the past tense there...
I have the 560 or something like that. It was great at first. I did move larger toys to the couch while it ran and that was fine. it fit under most my furniture but the coffee table/ottoman in the LR had to be lifted (I put tiles under the legs when it ran) and it got suck under some furniture.
But about 1.5 years after I got it, it started going in circles endlessly. I did everything they suggested to fix it and then gave up and called iRobot. The warranty is 1 year. All other vaccuums I have found are far more than that and this is one expensive vacuum. The best they'd do is offer to sell me a refurbished model with no battery, etc for a "discount". I use discount loosely because it wasn't much cheaper than a brand new one with all the parts.
I ended up taking the darn thing apart and soldering a part on to fix it but it's still not 100%.
And so I bought a Shark. It's cheaper than a new roomba and it's not that much more work to do. Occassionally I'll let the Roomba run I suppose.
Honestly I'm very disappointed. It was nice to have a vacuum that cleaned while I was at work, but it isn't worth the cost. For that price they need to warranty for a lot longer than 12 months.
It was me that posted about it, and I'm pretty happy with it. I work from home and our house is on the market, so I try and run it daily so just in case someone wants to see the house, it's vacuumed or on its way to being vacuumed. I'm surprised at how good of a job it did.
It does get caught on things (got caught under my bed) so I had to kind of keep an eye on it and every once in a while help it. I have the 530 version I think, and I used a Bed Bath 20% off coupon and it worked.