I detest housework and have posted about that before. In particular, I hate cleaning the floor, and the toilet. Robot vacuum cleaners have been around for a long time, but they've always been very expensive. Plus my sister in law bought one many years ago and said it didn't clean very well. Hence I was never interested in getting one.
Last week I went to a friend's house and she was singing praises of her vacuum and mop combined robot. Maybe it's time to reconsider getting one to reduce my housework? When I got home looking for Black Friday deals, I saw a vacuum robot at a very good price. I figured there was no harm in getting one. If it didn't work out I can always return it.
The robot arrived a couple days later. I didn't fall in love with it immediately because of its look. Imagine having a mini toilet next to your dining table 🥴 It didn't matter which way I placed it, it still looks like a toilet.
But, I was prepared to overlook its shortfalls if it means I can do less housework 😄 This little baby can vacuum and mop the floor. And after vacuum, it can self empty by sucking the rubbish up to the dust bag, that's the ugly toilet part.
I couldn't wait to test out my little helper. It starts by mapping out my room so it knows where to go. That only took a minute and you only have to do it once. I have to say I was very impressed with its scanning function. Then for the real work. It was quite fun watching it move live on the app even though I was sitting in the same room as it. The circles are where it's going around the dining table and chair legs and it took ages. Now I know to line up the chairs better so it has a more direct path and cleans quicker, like in the rest of the room where there's no furniture and it goes straight up and down.
Next was vacuuming the carpet area upstairs. I wanted to test two things here. Will the robot work if its base station is downstairs? And will it fall down the stairs? I decided to sit on the top of the stairs to catch it in case it fell down. It got to the edge of the stairs, stopped, moved backwards and forwards a few times, then it moved to another area. Clever!! Normally, after it finished vacuum, the robot will find its own way back to the base if it started from the base. In this case, I carried my baby upstairs and put it on the floor to start cleaning. When it couldn't detect the base, it told me the base was missing. Then it moved back to the same point where I put it down earlier on. Clever, it passed both tests!!✅ ✅
So far I'm loving my little helper. I get it to clean my kitchen every night after cooking dinner, and it only takes a few minutes. I will still have to clean it manually every week, but in between my floor is much cleaner. At least I think it is. If all this is just a placebo effect, I still think it's worth it 😄
Now I just need someone to design an automatic toilet cleaning machine that cleans both the inside and outside of the toilet. Then my life will be complete😉
What are your thoughts or experience in using robots to help you reduce your household chores? Let me know in the comments.
