Today I ordered

[Dapph2]

We have one for our downstairs at home.

Compared to a normal hoover they’re not great. However that’s to be expected. What they do allow you to do though is hoover constantly. Ours runs every single day with a schedule that means the mains parts of the house are done everyday and the lesser used bits every other day or so.

If you run them all the time then the house is always clean.

In the past I’ve seen people say they’re rubbish but then you come to find out they have it run round the house once a week or less expecting it to be as powerful and thorough as a manual one.

Ours has a mopping function too but we’ve never used it to be honest.


I would say it’s important to keep on top of filter changes on them. The roomba we have needs the inbuilt hoover changed fairly often and when you take it out you can see why! Minging! Parts are easy to source on Amazon though and non lemon ones are not expensive.

Does it do auto docking & recharging or do you have to do it yourself?

 

[chunkytfg]

Does it do auto docking & recharging or do you have to do it yourself?

Yeah it does. When the battery gets too low it just goes home recharges and then picks up where it left off.

 

[knighty]

anyone with a modern robot hoover - go into the app to check the cleaning/emptying settings

I don't see much point in not having them all set to maximum

It's a bit noisier I guess, but we're not home when it runs so don;t care about that (I guess it's the same for most people?)

 

[ajlelectronics]

Grrrrr. They are NOT Hoovers, they are vacuum cleaners.

 

[cheb]

Has anyone called them Hoovers? Plenty of hoovers, but no Hoovers, except in a thread title where capitalising each word is stylistically acceptable.

 

[JOEPRO]

Grrrrr. They are NOT Hoovers, they are vacuum cleaners.

Hoover's?

 

[cheb]

See also Asprin, Bubble Wrap, Thermos, Linoleum and, IIRC, Heroin.

Genericised trademarks is the phrase you'll be uninterested in.

 

[ajlelectronics]

Genericised trademarks is the phrase you'll be uninterested in.

I think you will find that Hoover at the very least are not impressed with such usage.

 

[Turbo]

Same as a land rover being called a jeep.
Used to bug the heck out of a discovery driving landy nut friend of mine when I called his wagon a jeep!

 

[Morrisman]

I ordered a fly zapper, fed up of flies buzzing around all day. We live out in the country, windows are open most all day, so we get quite a few annoying little visitors.

 

[Farside]

Same as a land rover being called a jeep.
Used to bug the heck out of a discovery driving landy nut friend of mine when I called his wagon a jeep!

Same here, but I got used to it, and even took to calling everything dirty with 4WD a jeep.

 

[MattF]

I ordered a fly zapper, fed up of flies buzzing around all day. We live out in the country, windows are open most all day, so we get quite a few annoying little visitors.

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Let us know if it's any good.

 

[MattF]

A brushless, compact & lightweight SDS drill.

 

[Robotstar5]

Today I ordered a new battery for my laptop after I found it won't charge above 25% and loses that overnight.

 

[JOEPRO]

A DIY enclosure kit for my 3D printer which is yet to arrive

But this will be a nice first project

 

[Dapph2]

Has anyone called them Hoovers? Plenty of hoovers, but no Hoovers, except in a thread title where capitalising each word is stylistically acceptable.

Over the years Hoover / hoover has become a generic term for vacuum cleaners .

 

[Dapph2]

Same as a land rover being called a jeep.
Used to bug the heck out of a discovery driving landy nut friend of mine when I called his wagon a jeep!

It would have been more accurate and descriptive to have called his discovery a heap