Kitchen appliances chat

I have an Eufy one, a G30 I think. It's good for the money (couple of hundred quid) and gets used most days. It's not as good as the fancy Roomba one I briefly owned but that cost a lot more and I'm not convinced all the bells and whistles are worth it unless you live in a place that is all on one level and the floor is always uncluttered.

On the floor they are good, obviously they can't clean your skirting boards, get into crevices, etc (but they can get under your bed, sofa, etc).

More expensive ones you can program to do stuff. A roomba one I had generated a map of your property and you could label different rooms and areas. Obviously only useful if your place is all on one level and your floor is always tidy. I didn't think the price premium was worth occasionally carrying it into the room, closing the door and pressing go.

They will all cover your whole house but cheaper ones do it a bit randomly, more expensive ones will generate a map and follow that.

I also came across this important view point when searching for my previous comments:

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Yeah, I did put my back into it and the vaccuum broke. Wait! I know what we need... one of those 1970s stainless steel ones you wear as a backpack!

Or maybe a shop vac...

Theres a good Sliced Bread podcast episode about this. Basically, you still need a normal vacuum cleaner if you shell out for a robot one as they don't clean as well.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001smmb

Ta, will have a listen.

My advice in the other thread is get one with radar so it can do mapping of rooms. So if you wanna do the Eufy ones get something like the LR30 or X8.

Ours was a Ecovacs Deebot 820 we bought many years ago at a big discount for something like £220. It looks like the N8 is likely the equivalent model.

We love having proper mapping for both floors of our house, the schedule, and the ability to clean just certain rooms on demand. Ours lives on the ground floor and is set to go off every Thursday at 4am. I just remember to lift things off the floor Wednesday night and when I wake on Thursday I empty the bin and sometimes clear hairs from the brushes. Every couple of weeks I lift it upstairs and set it off there. For me that provides a fairly good level of clean for everyday living, but obviously we've all got different standards. I will say that we've not used the mopping functionality as often as we thought, but maybe we would use it more now we have kids.

As others have said, you still need a normal manual vacuum cleaner. You'll just use it less.

Basically, you still need a normal vacuum cleaner if you shell out for a robot one as they don't clean as well

Agreed. But it does mean you can get away with a battery powered Dyson or Shark or whatever.

I got one of these a couple of weeks ago and very happy with it so far

Have been using Roborock S5 since ‘19, still solid (bar some regular sensor/cleaning alerts, which seems normal)

Ta, will have a listen.

Whilst hoovering.

Slightly OT, has anyone got any experience of water flossers

I asked recently here
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17232229/
Opinion was split

Ooo thanks

OT but; retractable washing lines, has anyone managed to find a quality one? Id like to replace our old metal housing l one with something similar, but all I can find is plastic ones where all the reviews complain about the plastics breaking down in UV

Not exactly answering your question but I had the one which you'll no doubt find on all your searches for 5 years (and it wasn't new when we got it) and no issues whatsoever

We bought this in June 2019: Minky Retractable Reel Washing... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001CJ12QO?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

It's still going strong. Sometimes the retraction on one line requires it being straight, but generally I just fling it up in the air as high as possible and watch it retract. It's faded a bit, but is aok. I used separate metal cable hooks as lots of people complained about the inbuilt plastic ones breaking - looking at the design this seems like a weak point and I wouldn't use them.

Sad to say, but at one point using this with one of these was the only thing that brought me joy. At that time I'd fantasise about a cerakoted aluminum cnc case with stainless cables, but this has been fine.

Fwiw the washing line I linked has >40k reviews.

Vileda, minky?

Fwiw the washing line I linked has >40k review

Loads of photos of the plastics breaking though, but I think that I'll do is try taking our old metal one apart and see if I can fix it, if not get that one, thanks.

You looked at one of those American style pulley ones?

I'm not on commish or anything, but all the breakages I could see are the locking tabs at the bottom. I've never used them, as I assumed they'd break based on the reviews. I did sort of what this person did.

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seems like the pump has broken on our bosch washing machine. i’ve checked the filter at the front and pulled out one of those plastic shirt collar inserts but that must be from ages ago. currently it’s drained, manually, not sure what to try to get it going.

Not sure what the american style ones are like sorry? We have this style currently:

But its all metal so has lasted since the 80's by the look of it.

@hugo7 fair enough

We had the pump 'go' on a Bosch a few years ago. These guys had a non-Bosch replacement pump that lasted for 10+ years:

https://capitalrepairs.co.uk/

american style

My last dentist suggested I get one. I haven't, obviously. Dentists are scumbags.