I had one of the first silver Roombae and have upgraded twice since, so I'm currently running a Discovery. Next month I'll be upgrading again to the Scooba (and selling my current Discovery on eBay).
Sometimes the Roombae have problems and returning them (or their parts) for repair/replacement is painful. You have to actually go back to sweeping! Once a week Roomba runs over my main areas of my house, and every couple of weeks the other rooms.
I have used Roomba on carpet in previous houses extensively. But I have all hard floors now. On carpet, you have to clean out Roomba a lot more often than on hard floors. I go months between times I take ten minutes to open Roomba up and clean out its guts.
I didn't get the scheduler because that really only helps if you have a Roomba per room/area you want cleaned, because you can't use it to tell Roomba to go to a particular room and clean that at a particular time -- just the room it's in. Instead, I have the external charger and a second battery, so by time Roomba's done with one charge, another one is ready. The docking station is just a convenience, really.
Ours is named Odysseus. How come? Because after it leaves its home, it wanders around seemingly at random, but somehow, it manages to find every mess in the area and get into the middle of it. Then, when it seems it will never find its way home, it does.
Sometimes the Roombae have problems and returning them (or their parts) for repair/replacement is painful. You have to actually go back to sweeping! Once a week Roomba runs over my main areas of my house, and every couple of weeks the other rooms.
I have used Roomba on carpet in previous houses extensively. But I have all hard floors now. On carpet, you have to clean out Roomba a lot more often than on hard floors. I go months between times I take ten minutes to open Roomba up and clean out its guts.
I didn't get the scheduler because that really only helps if you have a Roomba per room/area you want cleaned, because you can't use it to tell Roomba to go to a particular room and clean that at a particular time -- just the room it's in. Instead, I have the external charger and a second battery, so by time Roomba's done with one charge, another one is ready. The docking station is just a convenience, really.
Ours is named Odysseus. How come? Because after it leaves its home, it wanders around seemingly at random, but somehow, it manages to find every mess in the area and get into the middle of it. Then, when it seems it will never find its way home, it does.
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