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Old 06-02-2024, 05:00 AM
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Originally Posted by westernrider75 View Post
I absolutely hated mine and sold it. Not even sure where to begin……I spent so much time putting all my chairs up on counter tops or tables it was ridiculous. The robot could only clean around the legs not under them so I had to still do that manually or flip up all the bar stools and chairs.

It could not clean behind the sofa or chairs because of the cords running from my power reclining furniture, so I still had to clean back there.

It got stuck under the bed in my guest room EVERY TIME and I had to go retrieve it!

It doesn’t have enough suction to deep clean, so you still have to use a manual vacuum every once in awhile to really get any carpeted areas clean.

Ours was a pretty expensive iRoomba brand, I don’t remember the model, and it had a self-emptying feature which I thought would be great for our shedding dogs.

It was more work for me than just a regular vacuum.
What model did you have that didn’t work? That would be great info.

Our Shark will not run over cords, stops, and goes along the length, then continues until it finds the open non corded area then continues to clean. Plus I can actually draw a line avoid 6” in the program to avoid cords, rugs, or anything.

Haven’t ever had to pick up chairs Shark will clean under and around chairs and bar stools.

The iRobot didn’t do as well under chairs
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