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Originally Posted by Evans, Marv
I have a question about Roombas & others. We have wood floors and rugs. A couple of the rugs a a bit thick. How to they do with a situation like this? Not trying to jack the thread.
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I've had 3 over the past 5 years; each were junk. Latest one is actually sitting in the garage because I was just done with how crappy they are (for me).
I have a large, long "great room" in the main part of the house, and right about center of it is a pool table on a rug (wood floors throughout). Every day, my roomba would text me letting me know it was on the edge of a cliff (literally, that was the error it would send). When I got home, it would be dead center on that carpet under the pool table.
EVERY DAY. At one point, it got itself caught under a "ladder shelf" in the corner of the room, that was anchored into the wall. Impressively, I came home to that shelving system being on the floor, as the roomba had caught hold of the leg, and completely ripped the anchors out of the wall, bringing the entire thing down.
Something major broke--don't remember what. After a few weeks dealing with their customer service, they sent out a new one. That one didn't last 2 weeks before it failed. Customer service wouldn't return my call.
Bought the latest one maybe a year ago. Figured their tech has to have gotten better (maybe I'm just a glutton for punishment). It's crap. Won't even vacuum half the downstairs part of the house before it needs to recharge the battery, and gets lost going "home" every time. Tried giving it to my daughter, since she has a small apartment. Got a "no, thanks," so it sits in the garage collecting dust.