Should you buy one.
What does roomba do with small rugs.
Place the large rug within 12 inches of the walls on all sides or place it in the middle where it stops several inches away from all the furniture.
No doubt you are asking yourself which model is the best roomba for carpet.
Rugs can be the roomba s worst enemy if you are using a cheaper model.
Roomba can easily handle not only the hard floor but the high pile floor areas as well.
It s a small computerized cleaner that nips round your house automatically brushing and vacuuming the carpets rugs and floors.
It may get a little tangled or think the rug is a cliff.
They are designed especially to meet the requirements of thick carpet and make them dirt and dust free.
And also earlier roomba models such as the 400 and 600 series had bristle rollers and the bristles got caught on the carpet fibres.
I behaves the same way a regular vacuum would if you come in from the wrong angle.
I discuss two other rug issues in later sections.
Is it any good.
But a roomba s problems with rugs does not stop there.
This way it doesn t look like the room is crowding the rug.
Several rugs make a small room look crowded.
Few robots can cross rugs that are woven from long fibers or even ones that have tassels without.
How does it work.
If you do not have a large rug don t put any rugs out until you can buy one.
Later roomba models have rubber rollers that are much better at not getting stuck.
So yes roomba being carpet friendly actually works on them and do the needful.
We do believe that after this review you can simply answer yes it actually works.
Either that or roll the edge up in a way to let to roomba think it hit a wall.
I would recommend picking up a fuzzy fringy rug before launching the roomba.
A cheap roomba tends to have a difficult time transitioning from hardwood to rugs or to another surface.
We are 100 sure that our top 3 models will perfectly handle everything from pet hair on the thick carpet to small debris.
So does roomba actually work on thick pile flooring.
Higher suction does improve cleaning ability particularly on bare floors but it s a modest effect the max models still won t clean rugs like a roomba bot can due to their single smaller.