All About Life Without Maids

[dasalo]

chrilam:

Hi, I have been living without maid for 2months & realised I've been nagging my teen girl to help me with vacuum & mopping floor. She did it willing for the first month but now I will do it because she will takes 3hr using Rainbow vacuum cleaner (which is heavy for her). I vacuum daily & mop floor on alternate day after work for my 3yrs old son & fat old dog.


Any recommendation on which is the best & economical robert vacuum cleaner for both dry & wet clean, preferred with easy maintenance & where can I buy it?
Thanks in advance.

Rainbow is a pain to use but it is absolutely clean. Me as a mother don't like to use it on a daily basis because of the changing water, washing and attaching and detaching let alone on a teen. Now it is used by my part-time cleaner once a week.

For daily, I use a hand held Electrolux cos it's alot cheaper than iRobots. It costs $189 at usual price but $149 during sale. The machine is on my 3rd yrs now and is still doing well (trick is, you must use it everyday to discharge the battery) Of course, there are maintenance but really minimum eg. clear the dust from the cavity and hair from under brush. Detach all detachables and wash it periodically. The filter can be bought at the main office for $5/- (I have not change mine after 3 yrs as it is still in good condition ).

You may want to consider this cheaper version.

[24hr-mum]

electrolux cordless vac cleaner tall type. lithium batt

[micollh]

im more concern over food… meals… than cleanliness… how do u manage dinner for kids?

[24hr-mum]

evday got one steam

dish usg rice cooker - steam
corn wf butter, steam
salmon wf lime juice, steam tofu wf salted bean or minced meat or steam chkn wf garlic or steam egg. fry 1 veg n soup or boil the veg. prepare ingredient in the morng n keep in lock n lock container. or do bak kut teh . get bona spray mop easy to clean up aft cookg

[dasalo]

micollh:

im more concern over food.. meals.. than cleanliness.. how do u manage dinner for kids?

I usually prepare them in mid morning after coming home from market. I'll cook soup with thermal pot. 1 veg, usually plain (wash, soak) 1 meat dish either steam fish (marinate and wrapped and store in fridge), braised pork etc... put rice in cooker and set timer to ready at 5pm. All preparations will end at about 1230. When members return for dinner at 6, I'll start cooking/heating.

If one pot dish, easier...cook in mid morning eg. stew, casserole, braised.

[fifiyeo]

omgmum:

Hi fifiyeo,


How are your robots so far? Am thinking of getting them too but am worried that roomba can't cope with long hair and dog fur. Also, seems that scooba has some issues with durability.

Thanks!

My Scooba is onto its 8th month soon. So far very good. Floor very clean after use. But do put in that 5-10 mins effort to rinse a few parts after use. I got an extra battery so I run my Scooba for 2 full tanks at each go every time I wash the floor. That's kinda of abusing it.

My Rhoomba is onto it 9th month. I bought the areovac bin for it which is good for fur and hair. I have a fluffy cat who leaves behind balls of fur every day and everywhere it goes. Picks up alot of dust everyday.

Really totally happy with these 2 electronic maids! :imanangel:

[fifiyeo]

chrilam:

Buy an iRobot Romba for dry vaccum and a Scooba for wet floor washing. It really cuts down the pain of maintaining the floors. Just mop the edges and corners once a week as the machines can't get 100% close. The machines are also easy to use.

Thanks for your recommendation but I read Scooba is not easy to maintain. Do you know where to buy & price for each machine? Thanks again.[/quote]

So far I just rinse my schooba after every use. Just a 5-10 min job. Really easy I feel. Was told not to leave the dirty water in the tank overnight cos the dirt in the water will settle down inside.

Will PM you the site I got mine from.

[fifiyeo]

dasalo:

chrilam:

Hi, I have been living without maid for 2months & realised I've been nagging my teen girl to help me with vacuum & mopping floor. She did it willing for the first month but now I will do it because she will takes 3hr using Rainbow vacuum cleaner (which is heavy for her). I vacuum daily & mop floor on alternate day after work for my 3yrs old son & fat old dog.


Any recommendation on which is the best & economical robert vacuum cleaner for both dry & wet clean, preferred with easy maintenance & where can I buy it?
Thanks in advance.

Rainbow is a pain to use but it is absolutely clean. Me as a mother don't like to use it on a daily basis because of the changing water, washing and attaching and detaching let alone on a teen. Now it is used by my part-time cleaner once a week.

For daily, I use a hand held Electrolux cos it's alot cheaper than iRobots. It costs $189 at usual price but $149 during sale. The machine is on my 3rd yrs now and is still doing well (trick is, you must use it everyday to discharge the battery) Of course, there are maintenance but really minimum eg. clear the dust from the cavity and hair from under brush. Detach all detachables and wash it periodically. The filter can be bought at the main office for $5/- (I have not change mine after 3 yrs as it is still in good condition ).

You may want to consider this cheaper version.

Is this cordless? Am looking for something for my stairs. How long does it last before you need to recharge?

Agree that BIG machines are clumsy and hard to use. I have an Osim and I only use it to steam vaccum the mattress, curtain, cushion, sofa and shelves once in awhile.

[2ppaamm]

Can your scoobas mop marble floors? I have to retire my scooba after about 3 months’ use because the marble floors looked terrible! Thinking of reactivating it. The Scooba has been sitting around doing nothing for 2 years.


What’s the secret in using the scooba without it ‘shitting’ and ‘urinating’ once in a while?

[fifiyeo]

2ppaamm:

Can your scoobas mop marble floors? I have to retire my scooba after about 3 months' use because the marble floors looked terrible! Thinking of reactivating it. The Scooba has been sitting around doing nothing for 2 years.


What's the secret in using the scooba without it 'shitting' and 'urinating' once in a while?

Yes, my scooba washes marble, parquet and ceramic flooring. In fact it works best on marble as the surface is very smooth so it finishes off very nicely.

If you find that your floor is a bit wet, you can either wait for it to go into the drying mode auotmatically when it is finishing up the work or you can press the start button once when it is still running (the button will start blinking) and it will go into a drying mode for a few mins and finish up the job.

I'm no expert so maybe you can try troubleshooting suggestions from irobot's US website or go back to your seller to check out your set.