Should you’ve learn my weblog for any period of time, you understand that I’m a naturally messy one that has been on a little bit of a journey over these final two or three years to purge our dwelling of unneeded litter, manage what’s left, and study to maintain a clear dwelling. You can see previous posts about this cleaning, organizing, and purging journey here. I wrote not too way back about how I’ve finally discovered a routine that helps me keep my house clean.
I’m nonetheless sticking to that routine, and it has been so extremely useful. I don’t assume it might be an excessive amount of of a stretch to say that it has been life-changing. I really feel a lot extra at peace in my own residence. I’m having fun with our dwelling a lot extra, and I now not panic when somebody unexpectedly knocks on the entrance door.
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A part of my routine is letting our robotic vacuum do it’s factor each day. As a result of I had by no means had a robotic vacuum earlier than, and I had heard combined opinions, I didn’t wish to lay our a fortune on one. So I ended up getting this Eufy. It’s a really primary robotic vacuum, however I assumed it might be “starter” for me to see if I’d even prefer it.
Effectively, I’ve had it for nearly eight months now, and I assumed I’d give y’all an replace. Had you requested me how I prefer it two weeks in the past, my response would have been, “I prefer it! It’s effective! I positively assume it’s serving to.”
However then about two weeks in the past, it ran over one thing that received all tousled within the curler and it stopped working and began beeping at me. I used to be busy for the time being, so I simply flipped it over (so it might cease beeping and switch itself off), and went about my enterprise. Then I utterly forgot about it, and it stayed in that nook, flipped over on its again and never vacuuming the ground, for about 4 days.
Oh my gosh, I seen a HUGE distinction!! Inside 36 hours, my flooring seemed like a whole mess. For these of you who’re new round right here, I ought to point out that we’ve a 100-pound canine who is a component German Shepherd and half lab, so he sheds like loopy. Plus, we even have a cat that sheds.
That is the world of the home that our Eufy vacuums day by day…
I don’t let it vacuum our bed room as a result of we’ve too many cords that it saved getting caught on. Now we have an adjustable mattress, and the Eufy saved getting caught on the twine of the mattress and dragging the twine and unplugging the mattress. If I can discover a method to preserve the twine up off of the ground, I’ll let the Eufy vacuum in there.
And I don’t let it into our dwelling fitness center, grasp toilet, and my studio for apparent causes. It may well’t actually do a lot in a room that appears like this…
😀 However as soon as these areas are completed, it’ll vacuum these rooms as nicely.
So with it simply doing these seven areas for now (front room, hallway, hallway toilet, music room, kitchen, breakfast room, and pantry), that is the quantity of fur and mud it’s selecting up each day…
Each single day. That’s simply unbelievable to me! So you’ll be able to simply think about what our flooring seemed like after 4 days of the Eufy being caught within the nook, flipped on its bottom, and never having the ability to do its job day by day. It was terrible.
It additionally actually struck me how a lot of a distinction the flooring make in how a house feels. A home is rarely going to really feel clear and recent if the flooring aren’t clear. All the pieces else may be picked up and put away (nothing else about my routine modified throughout these 4 days, so every thing else was clear and tidy), however having fur balls all around the flooring made the home really feel unclean.
There aren’t many merchandise I’ve bought and used that I’ve genuinely thought, “How did I stay with out this?” I can actually say that I ponder that about my air compressor and nail weapons. (I DIYed for years earlier than I purchased these! All I had was a hammer. I can’t even think about that now!) I additionally marvel that about my Dremel Multi-Max oscillating instrument. I take advantage of that for therefore many issues that I actually don’t know the way I went with out it for therefore lengthy.
And now I add my Eufy to that record. While I got the basic version of a robot vacuum, it has nonetheless made such an enormous distinction in our dwelling. I can’t even think about how good it might be to get a type of fancy programmable ones! Perhaps in the future I’ll discover out.
So after eight months of dwelling with a robotic vacuum (and 4 days with out it), that’s my sincere evaluation of it. Even when all you’ll be able to afford is a primary one, I personally assume it’s price it, particularly when you share your house with animals that shed!
Understand that I’ve largely exhausting flooring (hardwood and tile), after which two very low pile rugs. I’ve no private expertise with how a robotic vacuum works with thicker rugs (or if they will even climb onto thicker rugs) or rooms which are absolutely carpeted. I simply know that with our explicit flooring, it really works amazingly nicely.
Additionally, I did must make some changes. Initially, the Eufy saved getting caught in three locations — beneath the lounge couch, beneath the fridge, and beneath the breakfast room buffet.
We received a brand new couch that sits nearer to the ground, in order that solved the couch situation. (We didn’t buy a brand new couch as a result of of the Eufy. 😀 The couch had already been ordered after I bought the Eufy, and it simply occurred that the brand new couch sat decrease to the ground.) On the fridge, I lastly realized that it was getting caught as a result of, for some motive, I had taken off the vented cowl that goes on the entrance of the fridge proper on the flooring. As soon as I discovered that and put it again on, it hasn’t been an issue.
In order that simply left the buffet within the breakfast room. It saved getting caught beneath that center half that swoops down…
To unravel that drawback, I reduce 4 little items of wooden and put these beneath the ft. That raised the entire thing up simply sufficient in order that the Eufy can get beneath there with out getting caught. And the little wooden items aren’t seen in any respect. I don’t assume anybody would ever discover them there.
So I did must make some minor changes to maintain the Eufy from getting caught, however the payoff for making these minor changes is totally price it. I don’t know the way lengthy I’ll stick to my Eufy. I could preserve it for the lengthy haul, or I could improve subsequent 12 months to a programmable robotic vacuum. I haven’t determined but. However what I do know is that I’ll by no means be with no robotic vacuum from right here on out. I actually don’t know the way I went so lengthy with out one.
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