Robovacs good or not?

[grumbledoak]

My Eufy bounces around like it is retarded, but they persevere quite endearingly. They go everywhere and they do get over bumps at thresholds. Eventually.

[Fonzey]

fat80b said:

Are they robust enough to cross things like this on their daily journey round a house or do they only really work with a perfect flooring join between all the rooms you want done?

I don't have any thresholds like this as such, but I did witness some amazing piece of navigating by my Neato when I first bought it. As we'd just moved into the house we had crap everywhere, and I'd removed the kick panel from the kitchen units so that I could slide my dishwasher in.

The robot went under the kitchen units so dropped down a threshold of probably 15-20mm to the bare concrete under the kitchen units, with unit legs spaced every 500mm or so. The damn thing cleaned up every bit of cement dust and building rubbish it could find, realised it couldn't get back up onto the kitchen tiles forwards so it span round 180, jacked it's rear end up by about 40mm and then reversed up... then was back on its way.

I was amazed

[irocfan]

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[Puggit]

fat80b said:

Another question - can they handle crossing thresholds between different flooring types - we have threshold pieces between the tiled floors of the kitchen etc and the carpeted floors in the dining room and living rooms.

Imagine a 15cm wide threshold piece roughly 1cm high.

Are they robust enough to cross things like this on their daily journey round a house or do they only really work with a perfect flooring join between all the rooms you want done?

Our's climbs on to our 1 inch thick rug.

[vantara]

I know that thresholds have been mentioned, but would these (below) pose a problem? Very tempted to get a robovac and not just to scare the living daylights out of the dog whilst I’m at work.

[Lazermilk]

Fonzey said:

fat80b said:

Are they robust enough to cross things like this on their daily journey round a house or do they only really work with a perfect flooring join between all the rooms you want done?

I don't have any thresholds like this as such, but I did witness some amazing piece of navigating by my Neato when I first bought it. As we'd just moved into the house we had crap everywhere, and I'd removed the kick panel from the kitchen units so that I could slide my dishwasher in.

The robot went under the kitchen units so dropped down a threshold of probably 15-20mm to the bare concrete under the kitchen units, with unit legs spaced every 500mm or so. The damn thing cleaned up every bit of cement dust and building rubbish it could find, realised it couldn't get back up onto the kitchen tiles forwards so it span round 180, jacked it's rear end up by about 40mm and then reversed up... then was back on its way.

I was amazed

I was amazed what our Neato would get over too, we have one of those metal rack clothes horse things like in the pic below, it has no bother climbing over the cross bar part on the floor and also over speaker stands etc.

I did see a review of someone complaining they had damaged their chrome bar stool bases as it had climbed up and the spinning brush marked it, so something to bear in mind if you have similar.
I think it had caught it on the edge of the vacuum brush as it tried to clean around the central pole.

Edited by Lazermilk on Wednesday 17th July 15:50

Edited by Lazermilk on Wednesday 17th July 15:51

[Lazermilk]

vantara said:

I know that thresholds have been mentioned, but would these (below) pose a problem? Very tempted to get a robovac and not just to scare the living daylights out of the dog whilst I’m at work.

Pretty sure the Neato would get over them fine based on what I said above about the clothes horse, can’t comment how well others would though.

[Fonzey]

My neato also regularly clambers up on top of stuff like bathroom scales and the base of a cat scratching post too, no problem.

[Marlin45]

Eufy 11 would clear those thresh-holds.

[vantara]

Cheers gents

[paulrockliffe]

Does anyone have experience of using these when the alarm is set? I have 2-stage PIRs in both rooms that the vacuum floats around and it runs when I'm out. Not been using the alarm, but I've got round to sorting out being able to remote into it from my PC so I can sort the programming out, so I will soon.

I can just set the thing going and monitor the sensors to see if it's triggering them, but interested in others experiences and how you've got around running them when you're out and having the alarm on?

I have a pretty decent system so I'm wondering if I can use my Tado with some automation services to run the vacuum if I go out and it's a weekday between 6 and 10, and trigger a relay to set the alarm via one of it's inputs. I can then set the alarm to partial set from this trigger and run a timer that triggers a full set after 2 hours, so the robot will have finished messing about.

[Black_S3]

Pet friendly sensors is probably the solution?

[Prohibiting]

Good sale on Eufy robovacs and Amazon.. have been umming and aaarhing for ages but bite the bullet today.

https://www.eufylife.com/uk/

I've just bought an Eufy 30C for £170. Hoping it's not a dissapointment. Obviously it's not as clever as the £500 Neato's with laser mapping etc but the reviews on Amazon appear good.

[Zoon]

Prohibiting said:

Good sale on Eufy robovacs and Amazon.. have been umming and aaarhing for ages but bite the bullet today.

https://www.eufylife.com/uk/

I've just bought an Eufy 30C for £170. Hoping it's not a dissapointment. Obviously it's not as clever as the £500 Neato's with laser mapping etc but the reviews on Amazon appear good.

No issues with ours, picks up really well.
I did have a neato with laser mapping but it was useless as kept disconnecting from wifi and stopped working.

[Prohibiting]

Now that I've purchased I can refer someone....

I'd split the cash 50/50 so you'll get it for £20 cheaper plus £38 worth of accessories.... an absolute bargain for £150 for the Eufy 30C plus the accessories surely?

Edited by Prohibiting on Friday 8th November 14:48

[Dan_1981]

Is that a bounce around everywhere one?

I want one with mapping that remebers where it's been.

Want it to be able to do all round downstairs - I don't think it'll get it all done if it just bounces off stuff.

[MrTinkerer]

Prohibiting said:

Now that I've purchased I can refer someone....

I'd split the cash 50/50 so you'll get it for £20 cheaper plus £38 worth of accessories.... an absolute bargain for £150 for the Eufy 30C plus the accessories surely?

Edited by Prohibiting on Friday 8th November 14:48

Purchased with link. Seems like a good deal and will compliment the robo mower who works a treat in the garden

[Prohibiting]

MrTinkerer said:

Prohibiting said:

Now that I've purchased I can refer someone....

I'd split the cash 50/50 so you'll get it for £20 cheaper plus £38 worth of accessories.... an absolute bargain for £150 for the Eufy 30C plus the accessories surely?

Edited by Prohibiting on Friday 8th November 14:48

Purchased with link. Seems like a good deal and will compliment the robo mower who works a treat in the garden

[anonymous-user]

Prohibiting said:

Now that I've purchased I can refer someone....

I'd split the cash 50/50 so you'll get it for £20 cheaper plus £38 worth of accessories.... an absolute bargain for £150 for the Eufy 30C plus the accessories surely?

Edited by Prohibiting on Friday 8th November 14:48

I’m in the market for one of these if the links available?

[Prohibiting]

sebdangerfield said:

Prohibiting said:

Now that I've purchased I can refer someone....

I'd split the cash 50/50 so you'll get it for £20 cheaper plus £38 worth of accessories.... an absolute bargain for £150 for the Eufy 30C plus the accessories surely?

Edited by Prohibiting on Friday 8th November 14:48

I’m in the market for one of these if the links available?

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