Roomba And Area Rugs With Fringe

You have to either pick up the fringed area rugs or choose to keep the roomba out of the rooms with the virtual wall devices that come with it.

Roomba and area rugs with fringe.

This was definitely something it was not designed to overcome or deal with properly. How to keep carpet fringes on area rugs clean intact. We love our roomba and use it every weekend. As any roomba owner knows fringe has been the achilles heal of the early models.

Roomba 600 series robot vacuums have two counter rotating brush rolls mounted in a suspension system a design that makes the bot a more effective cleaner on thicker rugs. Shag rugs with corners that curl up may cause the roomba to get caught. As my roomba 960 ages i noticed it jumps higher carpets easier. The roomba is an automated robotic vacuum cleaner.

In other words it s one of those disc shaped vacuums that cleans up all by itself. Roomba the automated vacuum that s otherwise been a big hit here choked on the strings. While we have no carpeting we do have several area rugs most of which have fringe on two sides. Both models love chewing on area rug fringe like it was spaghetti noodles made for vacuum cleaners.

Sold by irobot the roomba is designed to find the way around a space vacuuming the floor while simultaneously avoiding furniture and other obstacles. My roomba 960 choked and wrestled with the fringes the first time out. Not that it went away but decorative edging on rugs fell out of favor in our household. I choose to vacuum my areas by hand if the roomba skips an area but lately she has been hoping tall carpets decently and further reducing my clean up.

Clean your floor and rugs with a roomba. Off hand i can t think of how to effectively deal with fringe but you might be able to set up a couple of virtual walls to direct the roomba to only enter and leave the rug from one area and then make sure that the fringe on that side is held down with the rubber strips mentioned above. Fringe tassels give an area rug an exotic or elegant look. I assume this is because the front wheel is less rigid because i saw a hack to help the front wheel jump tall carpets.

If you own a roomba that really struggles with rug cleaning it s best to just avoid thick rugs and carpets altogether because it may only overwork the motor and the battery. Occupants there are three of us living in the house 2 adult humans and 1 cat. Might be a good question for laura in irobot q a. High pile area rugs e g.