Do you have a Roomba and Hardwood floors? I have ?'s

My Roomba is hanging out in the basement at the moment, so I can't tell you the number. I can tell you that it does a fantastic job on our hardwood floors that run through the kitchen, dining, and front entry way. Not sure if the square footage, but it has no problem doing all the hardwood in those rooms in one shot.

We do have 3 rooms off those areas, living room, play room, and library. For those rooms I actually "lock" Roomba in there so that it can only focus on those single areas at a time. Otherwise it would run all over the house trying to clean all the rooms at the same time.

I am very satisfied with how well Roomba cleans the floors. It gets all the stuff on the floors. I do have to follow up with the broom in the corners, but there's very little in those corners. Roomba is round, so it's hard for it to grab the stuff in the corners. It does have this little sweepy arm that reaches out to brush things in front of the machine so it can suck them up, but it doesn't reach all the way into the corners.

I love our Roomba! It is my favorite appliance. My parents got it for us last year for Christmas. It's fantastic! In the event it ever needs replacing I will not hesitate to shell out the money for a new one!

We've had a Roomba for about 4 years and love it. I think it is actually much better on hard surface floors than carpets. It just doesn't have enough sucking power to pull the stuff up out of carpets. That said, there are definitely some other bot vacuums out now that are rated very well, if not higher than Roombas and many of them are less expensive. I would definitely buy another one, but will look at other brands too.

For battery, ours seems to run about 90 minutes on a full charge. Our house is about 3200 sq ft, but I close off the carpeted rooms so I would guess it covers about 1700 sq ft of hard floor. It isn't on any kind of set pattern...it's like a june bug appliance. Moves about until it bumps into something, then just turns a little and keeps going so there are sometimes areas where it doesn't do as well because it has wasted time elsewhere randomly bumping about.

Overall, it's a lifesaver for the dog hair tumbleweeds that our two dogs profusely scatter throughout the house.

I have a Roomba. Not sure of the number but, it came from Costco a couple of years ago.

It is a timesaver for sure. It does a pretty good job. As mentioned above it does have the flight plan of a gnat, it doesn't methodically vacuum like we do. It goes here and there, bumps into things and goes this way bumps into something else and goes another way. Sometimes it gets the whole room other times it misses part.

It definitely does a better job than I do, I can't vacuum every day! I clean on the weekends and I run my regular vacuum then.

We've had ours for years, so it's definitely an older model, but we love it. We don't have hardwood, we have tile and our floor plan is open too. Much of the rooms are carpeted so we let it do just certain tiled areas at a time and I think it really does a good job that way. It has electronic gates that keep it confined to the area you want. In some areas our floor plan is so open, that I use the electronic gates and some physical barriers as well, but it works. As someone said above, if it dies we WILL spend the money for another. It was a great with the dog hair when we had our dog - he was a major shedder. 

3 dogs and we love ours, we've had it fo 3 years. We run it on the hardwoods in the main living area/kitchen and it's probably 1100 sq ft. It cleans good and does go over rugs. I have the dining room blocked off bc I don't want it to go over that rug

I just had a friend tell me the very same thing a few weeks ago. I plan on getting one once we redo our floors.

We have an ILIFE and a 1600 sq ft house, all of it is hardwood and I absolutely LOVE it! I think it does just a good a job as the Roomba for a whole lot less money. The only thing I do is pick up the small scatter rugs I keep in front to the bathroom sinks, otherwise the ILIFE will get caught up on them.

I'm wondering the same thing.

We have a knock off version from China and I love it.
Jen

Ditto this. We have had two different rugs and no issues. It does have a hard time with thin throw rugs, the kind with no rubber backing. I would think it would have issues with a rug with tassels on the ends depending on the length of the tassels.