Robot vacuums?

Pawnless Endgame · 3 Aug 2023 at 13:51

Have any of you forumites used one of these? I'm looking to buy one and the only requirement is to be water-based so to clean hard floors made of vinyl and laminated wooden floorboards. No budget really, say £500? The main brands seem to be Eufy and Samsung. Some vacuums can memorise rooms and I would like it to learn 2 rooms. Can I plonk it in room 1, clean that, then plonk it in room 2 and leave it to do its stuff both times? Can it be plonked anywhere in the learned room and it knows where it is?

fish · 3 Aug 2023 at 21:37

Ours can within reason but even when not it will just remap the room and clean it all

We have an ecavacs n8 probably the cheapest LiDAR based unit

413x · 4 Aug 2023 at 09:41

I have a random but straight lines vacuum (no water) and it's great. No idea about how effective the washing ones are. Don't know anyone with one.

I believe the memory ones (some of them) can be put in different rooms or floors where they know respective maps.

But even my random one, I have no regrets not getting the map. I can only see needing mapping if you don't want it to go places it can (ie you have a pile of crack waiting to be bagged on the floor and don't want it sucking it up)

Its the dog hair it does such a good job on

mi9tchy · 4 Aug 2023 at 13:30

i've got a roborock s50 which is a few years old and it had room mapping adding in a firmware update, i think the newer models have cameras or extra sensors to dodge cables or brown presents from pets

Pawnless Endgame · 4 Aug 2023 at 15:55

Thanks guys. I'll have a nosey around on the different features that these machines. This thread crops up every 1-2 years and I only posted this one because it's an emerging market.

Where my lounge flooring ends and where the kitchen flooring starts, there is a silver metal strip divider that holds down the 2 separate floorings. Can robo-vacs go over those? It's not raised that much and a remote control car or a wind-up car could go over it no probs.

I don't any pets or cables issues. It will just need to dodge the odd table leg.

Manbatius · 8 Aug 2023 at 06:29

Pawnless Endgame said:
Thanks guys. I'll have a nosey around on the different features that these machines. This thread crops up every 1-2 years and I only posted this one because it's an emerging market.

Where my lounge flooring ends and where the kitchen flooring starts, there is a silver metal strip divider that holds down the 2 separate floorings. Can robo-vacs go over those? It's not raised that much and a remote control car or a wind-up car could go over it no probs.

I don't any pets or cables issues. It will just need to dodge the odd table leg.

It would easily climb over that.

My Eufy one manages to get onto a wooded plynth in front of our sliding doors and easily goes over the threshold bar you describe. (Until the young one ripped the threshold bar out, must replace that ....)

We have liked ours it's just a cheapy, must be a couple of years old. Really helps with the kitchen/hallway/ dining room.

I'd possibly upgrade to a water one when this dies. (Tend to run it daily) This was £150 Eufy one, so just does a random pattern. But on its run time seems to cover the place.

Semple · 8 Aug 2023 at 06:41

Also in the market for one of these, I did almost pull the plug on an ecovacs during the prime sale, but after reading that ecovacs support is pretty terrible, I wasn't so keen on spending £800 on one.

I'm after one that does vacuuming and mopping that also has a station that self-empties. The new eufy (think it's like the x9?) has all the bells and whistles but doesn't have the self-emptying bin, instead the station is used to clean and dry the mopping pads - which to me is nowhere near as useful.

gailjon · 8 Aug 2023 at 08:42

Semple said:
Also in the market for one of these, I did almost pull the plug on an ecovacs during the prime sale, but after reading that ecovacs support is pretty terrible, I wasn't so keen on spending £800 on one.

I'm after one that does vacuuming and mopping that also has a station that self-empties. The new eufy (think it's like the x9?) has all the bells and whistles but doesn't have the self-emptying bin, instead the station is used to clean and dry the mopping pads - which to me is nowhere near as useful.

We have had two Ecovacs deebots, a 920 (for the lat three years) and now a T20 Omni.

The T20 has the latest twin mopping pads that rise up when it goes over rugs and it empties the dust automatically and cleans and dries the mopping pads automatically as well. It is genuinely an amazing thing. The 920 now resides upstairs and it is great not having to move the charger and robot upstairs to do there.

The base station is huge though (needed for the functionality).

We have had no issues with Ecovacs support as we have never had to use it.

Semple · 8 Aug 2023 at 11:36

gailjon said:
We have had two Ecovacs deebots, a 920 (for the lat three years) and now a T20 Omni.

The T20 has the latest twin mopping pads that rise up when it goes over rugs and it empties the dust automatically and cleans and dries the mopping pads automatically as well. It is genuinely an amazing thing. The 920 now resides upstairs and it is great not having to move the charger and robot upstairs to do there.

The base station is huge though (needed for the functionality).

We have had no issues with Ecovacs support as we have never had to use it.

Yeah the ecovacs ticked all the boxes - I was looking at the T10+. I believe it should also integrate with Home Assistant.

Was just a bit off-putting reading about the poor support. As you say though, if you never have to use it, then everything appears good. But they're on quite the higher priced side, so for the money you expect some decent support.

Noufas · 23 Aug 2023 at 11:46

afaik the biggest issue with ecovacs is their app not their support