I have one of those little bastards and I hate it. We set it to clean the main floor of our house at 3am every night (so no one would be disturbed by it) but it's loud and we'd usually wake up to discover that it had gotten trapped under a piece of furniture or in a corner right after starting, or cleaned one tiny area of the room until its battery died. And by "clean" I mean that it intimidated the dust bunnies.
Thanks for the input. I so badly want this to be the silver bullet. One thing is that we have maple floors and hardly any furniture and intend to keep it that way. Do you think that would make a difference?
First, congrats on moving in together! I hope it is the beginning of a whole new level of wonderful for both of you.
Second, though Roomba MAY be something of a solution (I just sooo love the thought of robotic housekeeping), I'd say that a better solution may be therapy. Now maybe you can talk your cat into not shedding any hair- *wink* -but I'm guessing you might get further with a long deep conversation about what makes Habiba so distraught over a bit of cat-hair and what level of perfectly clean she really needs.
Oh, another thought might be something like an electro-static mop-broom thingo. They are good at collecting hair off hardwood flooring, are much less effort and strain than a vacuum, and are super quick to use.
I didn't use the scheduler; I had a cheaper version, and I loved it! I think roomba should be supervised, because it can get stuck on things if you don't keep half an ear out for it while it's doing it's sweet clean-y thing.
I would tell it to go, and it would go. In tight spaces I would use the remote to guide it.
I was recuperating from the broken ankle/pulmonary embolism at the time, and it saved my bacon, what with 2 black cats and a beige carpet.
I miss Roomba. I left it with Chad when we split up. Someday I might get another one. :)
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I *think* I have a vacuum cleaner under all the junk in the back room...
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That doesn't mean I use it like I should. :)
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Second, though Roomba MAY be something of a solution (I just sooo love the thought of robotic housekeeping), I'd say that a better solution may be therapy. Now maybe you can talk your cat into not shedding any hair- *wink* -but I'm guessing you might get further with a long deep conversation about what makes Habiba so distraught over a bit of cat-hair and what level of perfectly clean she really needs.
Oh, another thought might be something like an electro-static mop-broom thingo. They are good at collecting hair off hardwood flooring, are much less effort and strain than a vacuum, and are super quick to use.
Good luck!
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I would tell it to go, and it would go. In tight spaces I would use the remote to guide it.
I was recuperating from the broken ankle/pulmonary embolism at the time, and it saved my bacon, what with 2 black cats and a beige carpet.
I miss Roomba. I left it with Chad when we split up. Someday I might get another one. :)
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