Robot vacuum/mop

[AndyK]

A few months ago I got rid of most of our carpet and put a new floor in our house.
Now that Amazon Black Friday sales are about here we are thinking about a robo vac/mop.

Do any of you have one or maybe have any input on one?
We kinda like the nicer Dreame models that heat their water to 136f and have techy functions.

Our budget is $1,000 +/- and before I drop that much I’d like to hear more real life experiences on them.
Our friends are very happy with theirs but I wonder about them sometimes.
I’d hate to drop this money and have something that my blue healer just attacks.
He has this crazy thing for biting tractor, lawnmowers and car tires.
I think a squirt gun will correct that issue well enough but I dunno .
I want a nicer model because I have doubts that a cheap robot can do a job up to my standards.

Thoughts?

 

[B.A. Poole]

I put money on the blue heeler. One of those would drive the poor animal crazy.

We have a upright Tenco wet mop. It does a good job. I have two daughters that have same machine. One machine is wet mopping 3,000 sq feet of flooring behind four children and a 100 lb dog. None of the machines have developed problems Good luck in your decision.

 

[BFletcher]

We have a upright Tenco wet mop. It does a good job. I have two daughters that have same machine. One machine is wet mopping 3,000 sq feet of flooring behind four children and a 100 lb dog. None of the machines have developed problems Good luck in your decision.

Tenco, or Tineco? I ask because we have and like our Tineco.

 

[B.A. Poole]

Ya, that one...... the Tineco. I should look before I spell.

 

[Tim Campbell]

A few months ago I got rid of most of our carpet and put a new floor in our house.
Now that Amazon Black Friday sales are about here we are thinking about a robo vac/mop.

Do any of you have one or maybe have any input on one?
We kinda like the nicer Dreame models that heat their water to 136f and have techy functions.

Our budget is $1,000 +/- and before I drop that much I’d like to hear more real life experiences on them.
Our friends are very happy with theirs but I wonder about them sometimes.
I’d hate to drop this money and have something that my blue healer just attacks.
He has this crazy thing for biting tractor, lawnmowers and car tires.
I think a squirt gun will correct that issue well enough but I dunno .
I want a nicer model because I have doubts that a cheap robot can do a job up to my standards.

Thoughts?

No knowledge of any kind here, but I do love your new avatar!

 

[Joe Anshien]

I saw a post of a robot vac that ran over some cat or dog poop and spread it all over the house. Nasty.

 

[AndyK]

Joe the high end ones I’m interested in actually have a poop avoidance system.
I have no idea how it works but I pray it works better than some of the auto-correct programs I’ve used.

 

[Joe Anshien]

Well you will have to make sure you do a write up on the one you pick out.

 

[Steve Hoch]

I saw a post of a robot vac that ran over some cat or dog poop and spread it all over the house. Nasty.

I saw that too, now I can't remember where not that it matters.

 

[AndyK]

I ended up buying this one.
It should arrive tomorrow and I’d like to set it up asap because we have 30 days to return this unit if we are not happy with it.
We also bought a 2 year warranty.

It requires a water supply for the hot water mop tank.
I have plenty of room near one of my toilets for this base station and being next to a toilet I can easily add a new water valve and supply line to it and have an easy access tank dump, so that makes things out of the way and a lot easier than crawling under the house and figuring out where to steal the water from.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CVL2TT74?tag=tvwb-20

 

[AndyK]

I took the dogs out on a decent sized adventure this morning so the wife could mess with the robo vac/mop thing in peace.
She hasn’t quite figured it all out like making it follow a floor pattern for better cleaning but she loves this thing and wonders why we didn’t pull the trigger on one of these years ago.
She is even thinking about giving it a nickname.
Our place in the Bay Area is very large and I’d hate to add up all the billable hours that we lost.

Our dog normally attacks anything that he doesn’t like and has not given this thing any attention at all.
We seriously thought that our dog would make keeping this a deal breaker.
He has this weird thing about wheels, other animals on the property and things that he thinks he needs to protect us from.
He is actually a very playful dog it’s just that his kind plays hard.