re: How often should you vacuum the carpet in your home?

I let my Neato clean it every other day.

We slacked on vacuuming our carpet for a while. We kept getting tons of house flies in our house and couldn't figure out how they were getting in. I started noticing these little brown pods scattered around the carpet, and thought it was just dirt at first. I took a closer look later and realized is was the pupa of a fly. I then started finding maggots in the carpet. That was the last straw! I took our belongings out of the house and burned it down. No more maggots.

Vacuum your carpet often!

3 dogs = twice a week. Takes like 15 min so it's not a big deal.

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How often should you vacuum the carpet in your home?

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With pets? Every day or two.

I have a Roomba and I hate it. It is a furniture destroyer. It only senses walls or larger obstructions. A chair leg is getting run into at full speed. It also isn't programmable, so we forget to do it a lot.

Is the Neato worth buying a whole new one? We have an open floor plan with living room, breakfast area, kitchen, dining room, and foyer area all open. Will it get to all of that, or do you have to set up barriers and do each area one at a time?

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I have a Roomba and I hate it. It is a furniture destroyer. It only senses walls or larger obstructions. A chair leg is getting run into at full speed. It also isn't programmable, so we forget to do it a lot.

Is the Neato worth buying a whole new one? We have an open floor plan with living room, breakfast area, kitchen, dining room, and foyer area all open. Will it get to all of that, or do you have to set up barriers and do each area one at a time?

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I have never seen my Neato ram into furniture legs, it somehow always stops a centimeter in front of it and then circles it without touching it. It has crawled on top of my wife's sandals and got them stuck in there, but when its stuck it just stops, turns itself off, and waits for humans to help it.

I don't want to tell you how to spend your money, but my Neato is the best money I've ever spent I think. I pre-program it and come home from work to spotless floors a couple times a week.

Moved my lab outside. Between the couple of puke spots, hair and Red River Valley clay mud that somb destroyed the carpet in our first home.

My dog has a "cot" type bed in the back yard. We've trained her to walk between the back welcome mat and the bed several times before we let her back in the house to dry her feet. She also has to shake hands to make sure there's not mud. So it's really only hair that's a problem.

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Floors mopped 3 days a week. I don't do it, though. Housekeeper does it.

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Three times a week? No wonder you have so much time to get loopy and cook.

If I were building a house, I wouldn't put down carpet anywhere. I had to move rather quickly for work to Houston last year. I was shocked at how many houses here have carpet everywhere. I understand the bedrooms even if I don't prefer it. But Living rooms, offices, family rooms, dining rooms all had carpet. And these houses aren't old at all. Luckily we found one with carpet only in the bedrooms. It's not worth pulling it out until it gets nasty. Then we're going with new hardwood through the entire house (or we'll just move before then)