TangoWhiskey
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http://store.irobot.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=3334470&cp=2804605
I mean, who likes cleaning gutters?!?!
I mean, who likes cleaning gutters?!?!
iRobot has a winner with this one...
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Bob Noel
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No trees...so nothing to get into them!!! One advantage Nebraska has....I had to clean gutters in NJ.
cessna182b
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By sheer coincidence I just finished cleaning my gutters today. There were leaves - on the side of the house with a tree. However, most of what I removed was grit (coarse sand) washed down from the roof tiles. There was more of that than I would have expected.
Dave
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I see a few issues with this iRobot. One is that it doesn't appear to be able to turn corners which would mean I'd still have to place it at many different locations. Another is that I'd expect the rotating cleaner would cause the shingle grit to scratch through the protective coating on the inside of the gutters leading to corrosion.
Did anyone else notice that the ladder was crushing the gutter in the demo video and that the user didn't run the device across the gutter there or further to the left? I suspect that you'd need a helmet and goggles for protection if you let the cleaner go past the ladder and I think it would need to be rotated 180 degrees to get all the way to the other end.
TangoWhiskey
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Correct, it doesn't turn corners... they even said the intent is to keep you from having to reposition the ladder multiple times on a single side of the house.
Good point about the shingle grit scratching the interior protective coating! It also wouldn't clean out your down spouts.
Either way (with or without the robot) you're still going to be climbing up and down ladders a lot. I think putting gutter guards on, which allow water in but not leaves, or buying "mostly sealed gutters", is a better long term solution, but I bet they sell a few of these.
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So Mike I take it you have one of these and don't like it. Can you give up a PIREP on why?
Missa
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The problem I have is that I have pine trees... the gutter gards don't work on pine needles.
gismo
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Have you tried the foam inserts? Stuff like needles will still lie on top but if it gets thick enough to block the flow into the gutter the resulting overflow washes most of it off.
It comes in six or more parts including the laughable holster. You have to charge the battery outside of the device. The battery enclosure requires the usual only-the-Chinese-and Japanese-really-have-this-tool-which-not-a-phillips-cross screwdriver to open and close. And the battery charger is one of those DO NOT OVERCHARGE 4 hours only deals.
So I charged it up fully and brought it over to my neighbor working on cleaning his neighbor's gutters. We ran it on the ground. Played with it for a few minutes. Put it in the gutter. Ran it about 20 feet to near the end. The battery died.
On the plus side, while it worked it really threw the garf out of the gutter.
Since then it's been added to the pile of crap I trip over in the house. I'm *fairly sure* I can gather up all of the parts.
I'm sure it'll work longer once you exercise the battery with more charge/discharge cycles.
The good news is I bought it from Woot so it wasn't very expensive.
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Yeah. I do. Make me an offer.
It's fine. I just don't have enough clear floor for it to work in - lotsa cables and other stuff for it to get tangled up in.
My more normal buddy and his wife remarked that their Roomba is one item they've bought that worked better than they thought it would.