Housework game changer

Bluesmum roomba's do use a bit of suction. Not much though. The manufacturers seem reluctant to state exactly how much. The cleaning is mostly in the revolving brush. Much like the battery powered pushalongs, but you don't have to push. It's the brush cleaning that makes them a bit hard on loop pile.

My daughter has wooden floors throughout the ground floor and has one of those robot thingies - it is often wondering around when I go there and seems quite effective especially with two dogs.

Word of warning to dog owners.....especially if your dog is old, deaf, sleeps a lot and has a long fluffy tail.

I have a G TechAir Ram and its Brilliant !
I got it on special offer from Amazon and chose the Pink one. Its called The Pink Panther in our house. Its kept downstairs and a Dyson upstairs for stairs and bedrooms. The Pink Panther is so light and easy to use, very user friendly to take apart and wash it out when needed. Check out the displays on youtube. I give it 10/10

I've got a roomba, I love it, so does my dgs, however he is fascinated and terrified all at the same time (only 2 years old), he loves to sit on the sofa and watch it disappear under the coffee table and then come out the other side, mine's called Roger. My son was so impressed that he's now got one as well. It definitely cleans the floor better than I ever did with a normal vacuum cleaner, I dread the day that it stops working! My daughter has a lot of tiled floors, so she has a scuba which washes and dries the floors, it also does a marvelous job.

I have a robotic cleaner and love it- the only problem is that it gets stuck under my sideboard and I have one awful job trying to retrieve it because once I am on the floor I have a major problem getting off it again.

I thought those robot cleaners didnt use suction? My friend had one and all it seemed to do was "dust" the surface of the carpet! When she went into hospital, I was in charge of looking after her house and I took my gorgeous G tech Air Ram and vacuumed her lounge - it sucked up so much filth I had to empty it three times just doing her lounge! Yuk!

That sounds a wonderful idea!
Vacuuming gives me back pain - I've just finished in one of the bedrooms and am k......d.
Husband does usually do it, but I decided to have ago this morning.

I have two cordless Gtech vacuum cleaners, and can't fault them!
It's so much easier to just whizz round without having the mess of wires, plugs etc.
The Air Ram (for floors) lives in the coats cupboard in the hall and the Multi (hand held) has found a home on top of the fridge freezer, it's very useful in there for when I drop crumbs etc which is a frequent occurrence!
I bought the Air Ram as soon as it came out, so mine's a good few years old, but it's still as powerful as ever.
We bought the car kit for the Multi too, so now the car occasionally gets cleaned out, DH has no excuses about trailing wires down the drive!

Minimo, can I borrow yours for a trial please?

5" is ample for my Roomba to go under a bed. Forget dismantling beds!

I also have a Morphy Richards cordless and I am really pleased with it. I still use the Dyson once a week but this light weight machine is used every day to pick up dog hairs etc. It is very quiet (DH can't stand the noise of the Dyson) and easy to manouver under furniture. One of my better buys.

I have a Bosch cordless vacuum cleaner. I can't tell you how wonderful it is. Quick, easy, light, manoeuvrable, efficient.........and fun apparently. The DGCs love to use it and their mothers fight to get their hands on it too. My DDiL is now trying to persuade my DS to get one.

I have seen a great modification to a robotic cleaner - Donald Trump's face pasted on top (well, ok just a photo).

I adore my Morphy Richards cordless vac BarbaraAbbs. It's very light and picks up well. It can get under low chairs and bookcases really easily. I just keep it on charge all the time and it's never run out of power while I'm using it. It was really cheap as well. I bought it cos it had really good write ups on Amazon.

Mini I I'd love to know which brand you have as its sounds incredibly good value. I have a big heavy dyson and the problem is it won't go under the bed and using the attachments doesn't work very well. To do a decent job I have to take off the mattress, remove the slats and get inside the bed frame with the dyson. As you can imagine it doesn't get done as often as it should!
My bed has a gap of about 5 inches underneath, would your robot go under there?

I've had a cordless Dyson thingy for a couple of years now and I love it. After a lifetime of useless vacuums, cheap and expensive this Dyson has been faultless. My craft attic doesn't get done so often and it can do the whole rest of the house on one charge.
Just got one for the old mother in Aldi a week or so ago at a great price.

My lazy shyster of a daughter has a roomba and likes it too ... more that she's lazy than it does a great job I suspect!

I have been thinking about a cordless vac. Does anyone have any experience? The Dyson gets good reviews but is v. expensive.

Funnily enough I have just sent mine back. It cost £240 and I found it incredibly frustrating. Going off on a tangent. Got stuck on the corner of a deep pile rug, got wedged under the kitchen cabinets and when I found myself sweeping crumbs in front of it to make sure they got picked up I decided it wasn't the machine for me. Shame as I had wanted one for ages. Instead I've bought myself a cordless AEG vac, that has a hand held vacuum built into it, so two for the price of one. Much happier with it as the main reason I wanted one is to hoover up after the darling GC.

My daughter in law has one of these and it's fascinating to watch . It does go round furniture and into nooks and crannies but obviously doesnt move furniture - but neither do I! Mr B does a much more thorough job than me and often volunteers so I tend to have a whisk round when I do it (i hate it - much rather do ironing!) The trouble with DiLs robot is that it terrifies 1 year old GD so she has to do it when little one in bed!

Love mine especially on the hard floors downstairs. Does a thorough job on bits, so I just have to do a quick mop and dry afterwards. I tend to use a cordless vacuum on my upstairs carpets because they're new and, as jingl said it can be a bit rough on these. On older, flatter carpets it was fine.

Yes dte it would clean up bird seed np

I want a robot cleaner,keep looking and toying with idea,we are downsizing and soon to move to a G/F flat.....Have a kakariki parrot who is a messy so n so with his seeds ...is the robot man enough for the job do you think

I'd like one and am sort of thinking about how I can rearrange the little things that might get in the way to clear as much space as possible. One day soon I hope.

DH is going to contact them, we have an address somewhere in the depths of the filing cabinet

When my first roomba's battery packed up I contacted them (somewhere in mainland Europe, can't remember where) and they sold me a new basic Roomba for a much lower price.

Mine, who is known as Bob, only likes cleaning hard floors, he objects if he goes on carpet.
And now he is refusing to charge up, his battery must have died completely.

No, he didn't sit in a corner, he would touch a skirting board then take off in a different direction (when he worked, that is).