How often does your roomba run?

kristac · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Charlotte NC

Daily, Weekly? What's your roomba schedule?

igors48 · Joined: 17 Apr 2008 Posts: 57 Location: Ukraine

Daily. More missions - less dirt in house and inside roomba.

Fraggboy · Posted: May 13, 2008, 9:40 am Post subject:

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

kamida · Posted: May 13, 2008, 10:11 am Post subject:

I run them daily and frequently 3 times a day. Keeps the dust in better control. Dirt Dog runs 3x week, and scooba runs nightly.

VFM · Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Posts: 45

Daily, every morning when I go out.

Ventura.

roddenshaw · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 160 Location: London, UK.

Roomba runs daily (it's a fantastic and persistent alarm clock) and Scooba runs about once a fortnight.

nine · Joined: 08 Apr 2008 Posts: 80

Fraggboy wrote: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Same.

Gravity · Joined: 01 Mar 2008 Posts: 122 Location: Sandusky, OH

Daily, usually twice a day. Keeps everything under control, and there's nothing like bare feet on freshly fluffed carpet. :P

sebamac · Joined: 08 Apr 2007 Posts: 26 Location: Poland

nine wrote: Fraggboy wrote: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Same.

Same :)

richnorto · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 246

Every other day usually in every room (6 roombas). I sometimes run twice a day if dogs have been in the finished basement. Scooba runs 4 missions 1 or 2 times a week. DD runs every 2 days as I have to move him between unfinished basement and garage. He also did a bang up job on the screened in porch a couple days ago. Wood looks like new after those brushes did their work (better than roomba out there).

wsngmartin · Posted: May 13, 2008, 9:43 pm Post subject:

i only run mine every other day bc i have um, a few too many and i have to rotate them so the batteries get regular exercise.

Heraklen · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Posts: 21 Location: Sweden

My 560 runs 2 times a week , one time upstairs and 2nd time downstairs, saturday & sundays.
Same schedule with my scooba.

_JP_ · Joined: 12 Dec 2007 Posts: 197

Almost daily. I've been away a lot.

kristac · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 8 Location: Charlotte NC

richnorto wrote: Every other day usually in every room (6 roombas). I sometimes run twice a day if dogs have been in the finished basement. Scooba runs 4 missions 1 or 2 times a week. DD runs every 2 days as I have to move him between unfinished basement and garage. He also did a bang up job on the screened in porch a couple days ago. Wood looks like new after those brushes did their work (better than roomba out there).

You can use roomba on a deck?

bullfrog · Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 61 Location: Georgia

kristac wrote: richnorto wrote: DD runs every 2 days as I have to move him between unfinished basement and garage. He also did a bang up job on the screened in porch a couple days ago. Wood looks like new after those brushes did their work (better than roomba out there).

You can use roomba on a deck?

No, She uses the Dirt Dog on the deck.

I run my 12 little guys 3 times a week, I let them all loose at once.

wsngmartin · Posted: May 14, 2008, 12:17 pm Post subject:

bullfrog
looks like you got your last 2 deadbots up and running?

bullfrog · Joined: 28 Jul 2007 Posts: 61 Location: Georgia

Hi Wendy,
I went through them a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been thinking of doing a write up about the rebuild. I got a few pictures of what I found. Just not sure of what the title should be. They were full of pet hair. One had a melted brush motor that took out U11 on the mother board.

wsngmartin · Posted: May 14, 2008, 12:52 pm Post subject:

try something like "bullfrog's rebuild of deadbots" :D

we've got a dead one that should be interesting. fairly new 4230, got caught up in unplugged christmas tree's light cord (probably some sort of a sign), and started making grinding sounds, brushes turning in jerky manner. DH/roombatech took 'im apart, found *nothing* out of the ordinary except the hole where the main drive (brushdeck) gear fits in seems a bit bigger, with a lot of play. he greased it up and put it back together, and it ran fine for about 3 missions then did the crunching (very ugly) sound again. we have a set of bearings from vic so if that fixes the problem we'll post that one. DH has to get the right parts for his dremel-like tool.

richnorto · Joined: 03 Sep 2007 Posts: 246

kristac wrote: richnorto wrote: Every other day usually in every room (6 roombas). I sometimes run twice a day if dogs have been in the finished basement. Scooba runs 4 missions 1 or 2 times a week. DD runs every 2 days as I have to move him between unfinished basement and garage. He also did a bang up job on the screened in porch a couple days ago. Wood looks like new after those brushes did their work (better than roomba out there).

You can use roomba on a deck?

Actually I was using Rosie, a roomba, on my screened in porch. She would finish covered in pollen and dust and required a good cleaning/blow out before I could bring her back inside. The dirt dog, Buster, does a better job and I don't have to feel guilty about misusing him!