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When I had the free 'spring clean' of my flat following the asbestos removal fiasco in Spring last year, I have been contemplating employing a domestic cleaner.

I kept putting it off because I enjoy being alone and I find the prospect of a weekly invasion daunting.


I have found the solution - a robot vac.
iRobot Roomba 780 review - Vacuum Cleaner - Trusted Reviews

It is pricey - £488 - but that is the equivalent of a human cleaner for 2 hours a week for 6 months, and the robot can operate numerous times a week.

It arrived yesterday and I have used it today after an overnight charge.
I have had one problem so far - it went under the wardrobes, where no hoover has been for years, and so the accumulated fluff filled the bin and it switched itself off, whilst still under there!:eek:

I cursed a bit getting it out but hopefully, now that a decade of fluff is gone, it won't happen again.

It isn't as noisy as a conventional vac so the 30 minutes it took to vac my lounge wasn't annoying.

I recommend it for us elderly disabled folk. If you are still capable of dusting, window cleaning and such like, this gadget does the 'heavy' job of vacuuming.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=2hpnBhMUFds

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ive watched the clip and facinated... are there any other robo things... like cleaning the toilet seat and after a man and putting the lid down!

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I don't need to spend all that money......I have a 1943 model(though it is very difficult to get spares for it now) there is no problem with it getting stuck under items of furniture....it just ignores these and vacuums round them.......it has developed an irritating, grumbling whine recently, but a whack with a rolled up magazine silences it very efficiently(though only for a few minutes)....the good thing about this cleaner is that it washed up too! :D

Margaret...on a more serious note...I am glad you are pleased with your buy....and there is one thing about it......it won't fail to turn up because there is snow on the ground and no buses were running.

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I have found seats that raise and lower, and seats that clean, but not any that do both

Smarthome - ITouchless Automated Toilet Seat - YouTube

self clean toilet seat (toilet seat cleaning system) - YouTube

Easier to buy a whip and train him as you would with most wild untamed animals.:D

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You must have the wrong man :p

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Whats this constant moan from women about bog lids, if you want it down then put it down, we have to lift it up after you've been, you expend more energy moaning, than it does to just move the dammed thing, think youselves lucky they have hinged lids, the old long drops didn't.

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Sounds handy, but could I store the Death Star plans in its memory banks...?

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Looks very handy Margaret

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I told my wife that if the seat is always up, then there are two explanations - we're either in perfect harmony and alternate our visits, or I go more than she does. If it's the former, I have to expend as much energy lifting the seat as she does putting it down. If it's the latter, I spend more time using the loo so my preferred lid orientation should take preference. :)

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Were you a philosopher in another life Studio:D

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Statistician... not quite the same. :)

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The point of having a toilet seat LID isn't just to have somewhere to sit when you dry your feet after a shower.:rolleyes:

The LID should be DOWN to prevent fine contaminated water spray particles from permeating the bathroom air.

So when a man uses the toilet he should lift both seat and lid at the same time , and lower both afterwards.

When a woman uses the toilet she needs to lift the lid only, and lower it afterwards.

This is an equal division of effort between users.

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Not really. The seat and lid weigh twice as much as the lid alone so you're asking him for twice as much effort.
If he lifts the seat and lid and leaves them up he's done as much work as she does lifting and lowering the lid alone.
Seems fair to me!

How did we get onto mens toilet habits?

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Oh for goodness sake all of you, get a life.
It doesn't affect Margaret as she lives alone and can do what she chooses-the rest of us have to work out a healthy compromise.
Personally, I don't care what position the toilet seat is in.

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You would if you sat on it when the seat was up.

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To get back on thread -

The Roomba maps out the room so that it knows when it has cleaned everywhere. It returns to its homebase when it has finished and plays a little tune - self congratulation?.

Other advantages - doesn't eat or leave the toilet seat up :D

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I watched some of the videos, MargaretR. I think I'd rather sit and watch one of those than watch some of the TV these days.
The dust box doesn't look very big.Does it fill up quickly?

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The manual recommends emptying after every use.

At the moment I am clearing a backlog of dust and fluff accumulated after several weeks of neglect, and have found the dust box very full after use. It is easier to empty than my Dyson.

When I programme it to clean daily during my PM nap I imagine that it will not need emptying every time.

There is a larger dust box available as an optional extra, which pet owners might need.

What I did notice was a quite large amount of very fine powder type dust trapped by the Hepa filters.- that IS good.

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Sorry Margaret just wanted to add my two pennorth on this subject.

No, lowering the lid doesn't take as much effort as lifting it as you have gravity to assist you.

Yes it's a bit disconcerting going to sit on the loo and suddenly finding yourself a few inches lower than you thought you were going to be. Actually the opposite once happened to me - I sat on the loo without noticing the lid was down and before I realised it the floor was very wet... it was on a train - I rushed out of the loo and beat a hasty retreat to the other end of the train!

I look on men leaving the lid/seat up in the same way as we were talking about snoring partners the other day - at least you know they're still there to carry on with their bad habits.

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No I really don't care. I am at that age when, cold pot meeting hot bot, is quite refreshing and that only happens in the night when I navigate to the loo with eyes closed and no light on(don't want to wake himself from his beauty sleep).
What I really don't like is following him to the lav and finding the pedestal mat wet........he needs to aim a bit straighter...either that, or sit down to siphon the python.
I always have at least one pedestal mat in the wash.

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I enjoy the company of my cleaner twice a week, I get a bit of friendly chat to break the boredom of living alone. I don't suppose the robot would wipe off the top of the fridge freezer or kitchen cupboard nor would it empty the fridge and mop it out once a month.
Other jobs she does is to vacuum the curtains, make my bed and clean the lamp shades.
Plenty of other jobs the robot can't do.

The robot looks like a handy device though but I will stick with the old fashioned method.
Oh, I nearly forgot, the cleaner and her hubby brought me a birthday card and bottle of wine for my birthday (tomorrow folks), you won't get that from your robot.

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Men should sit to urinate

6 Reasons Men Should Pee Sitting Down | This or That

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Margaret was explaining, but missed a bit out, that you should have the lid down when you flush to stop a fine mist of what you just left behind ending up in the air and you breathing it in.

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It's your mist, what's wrong with breathing it in?

I always think women moaning about men standing up is a jealousy thing.

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Yesterday my robot spoke to me:eek:

It had got trapped between the legs of a swivel chair.
It instructed me, in a female transatlantic accent, to relocate it.

If anyone still has shares in Ewbank, sell now :D

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goodness, that would have spooked me...home alone and hearing voices.....:D

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One does get used to it.

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You won't be saying that when you hear it say "Hasta la vista, baby" ;)

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That one will have flown right over Margarets head Studio:rolleyes:

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No it didn't - all the cuckoo's nests are at the bottom of this hill;).

If it 'dies' within a year I get a free replacement.

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I had to think about that Margaret:D

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Good to know you still can :D

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The body's weak, but nout wrong with the thinking gear:D:D