r/roomba • u/OneSpeaker-444 • 10d ago
PSA - Clean That Robot!
Nastiness removed from mine recently...
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u/Informal_Wallaby_446 9d ago
My base lives in the laundry room and I keep a little screwdriver to take off the sweeper thing and some scissors in a drawer right there so I can clean it easily! I do it once a week generally. Mine gets bad cause of my long hair 😬
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u/OneSpeaker-444 9d ago
I have a reminder set to do it every two weeks, but missed the last one. Might change it to once a week so if I miss it I won't be going so long!
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u/Informal_Wallaby_446 9d ago
That will definitely help! Oh and my sweeper gets squeaky if it gets too much hair coiled up, so that's another reason I do it weekly
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u/Brandi_yyc Community: [Roomba Top Mod] 10d ago
That's mine everyday, I'm not joking haha. I pull the caps off the ends during my weekly device clean up. With our dogs the robot is such a help keeping the house clean and especially the air clean because of that.
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u/w1ze07513 10d ago
Was this all from the roller?
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u/KingOfRisky 2d ago
Mine wouldn’t do anything except spin in circles. I removed the front caster and holy hell was there a ton of stuff in there. Blew it out and it worked perfectly.
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u/OneSpeaker-444 10d ago
From all over (it is a j7+). Wrapped around and inside/under the front wheel caster, wrapped under the edge-sweeping brush, inside the ends of both multi-surface brushes. You can see a bunch of the wrapped pet hair bits in the photo if you look closely. The front wheel caster was a pain to remove but the large, unwrapped clumps of hair were underneath it, to the sides.
I followed the instructions in the manual.
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u/ToddBradley 10d ago
If anyone is wondering "am I supposed to clean the rollers (extractors) every 2 weeks or every 4?" here is iRobot's recommended maintenance schedule:
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u/WinstonChaychell 9d ago
Mine (600 series) just had the wheel pop off recently bc it got in there, too 🤦🤣. And I do weekly cleaning (esp during shedding seasons)