Roomba

Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:57 am

Just got this for my wife for xmas, ran it tonight in my den damn this might be the sweetest thing ever watch the video

http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=122

Mon Dec 11, 2006 1:58 am

upper right hand corner......and this thing actually works!!!!!!

they have a mopping one two, might get that too before xmas, get a docking station free!!!

Mon Dec 11, 2006 7:50 am

We have been thinking about getting a couple of these. Do you think it would do ok with pet hair? How many square feet will it clean? Will one unit do the whole house or do you have to buy X number of units based on square footage? How often do you have to change the bag?

sorry for so many questions but we are right in the middle of looking at these.

Nuck

Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:17 am

pet hair is ok, they even give you a special tool to cut it out of brushes, just need one unit, it cleans one room at a time, special units that come with, prevent it from going to a separate room, 45 minutes per room, no bag needed

Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:24 am

I bought one for the wife, it works well!

Mon Dec 11, 2006 6:27 pm

Best place to get one? What should I expect to pay?

Nuck

Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:20 pm

$300

Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:22 pm

$300 not bad, wow that thing looks kicka$$

Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:04 pm

Have you guys considered the possibility that your wives might not really want a vacuum cleaner for Christmas?

No matter how happy they pretend to be, they'll still get your balls for that.

Oh and no recipe books either.

Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:50 pm

Originally posted by Chacal
Have you guys considered the possibility that your wives might not really want a vacuum cleaner for Christmas?

No matter how happy they pretend to be, they'll still get your balls for that.

Oh and no recipe books either.

What else are they going to do besides clean and cook....

Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:31 am

<------------wife is alway cool with the idea of having to do less work

Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:44 am

Originally posted by Chacal
Have you guys considered the possibility that your wives might not really want a vacuum cleaner for Christmas?

No matter how happy they pretend to be, they'll still get your balls for that.

Oh and no recipe books either.

Hell let me just be honest and say that the damn thing is for me! Wife has had me on floor detail for years.

One more question on the roomba. Does it work just as good on hardwood floors? We do not have carpet anywhere in our house. It is either tile or hardwood.

Nuck

Tue Dec 12, 2006 4:35 pm

Originally posted by ]DP[Nuckle
Hell let me just be honest and say that the damn thing is for me! Wife has had me on floor detail for years.

One more question on the roomba. Does it work just as good on hardwood floors? We do not have carpet anywhere in our house. It is either tile or hardwood.

Nuck

Smart man. I will never have carpet in a house I own ever. I hate dirt trapping carpet. If I could I would rip up the carpet in the house I am in now. That is a little bit down the list of stuff to do for this house.

Tue Dec 12, 2006 6:35 pm

Well the bad thing about not having carpet is that it always looks like the floors are dirty. It takes about a day for pet hair to start gathering in the HW floors. The good thing is that when you sweep it, you get all the hair up. So it is way cleaner than carpet. It just dont look that way. Your feet have to adjust to it as well. When we first pulled all of our carpet out my feet hurt for about a week.

Nuck

Tue Dec 12, 2006 9:56 pm

also hardwood floors, if remodeled up, will increase the value of your home 15%, only problem with hardwood for me would be the heating factor, who cares home is being built, we'll let the sucker who gets this house worry about that