On 8/5/17 11:43 AM, -MIKE- wrote:
On 8/5/17 10:58 AM, Unquestionably Confused wrote:
On 8/5/2017 10:46 AM, -MIKE- wrote:
On 8/4/17 10:12 PM, Doug Miller wrote:
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so on. I'm wondering how well Roomba would do with the fine dust
that escapes my air filter
too, and settles out of the air hours later, or with the stuff that
I miss with the broom.
It would work great for that, if you didn't move stuff around a lot.
Unfortunately, they are easily confused.
How so, Mike? I don't own one but I always thought they cleaned in a
randomized pattern - just take off and go until they sense/touch and
object and then alter course until the next obstruction.
In any case given their limitations on larger debris, I would think
the OP would be better off just making a fast pass with a floor vacuum
tool attached to a shop vac or dust collection system. By the time
he's picked up all the little bits, he's near done anyway. At a
couple hundred for a Roomba, he can buy some nice hardwoods or another
tool. ;-)
Maybe they have improved their "brains" since we had one.
But our would often get stuck in one area and just keep re-cleaning that
section over and over until it decided it was done.
Then again, I'm not sure this was a Roomba. It may have been another
brand.
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