A:AnswerFor short hair (1" or less) you should be fine, though you may run into issues with the auto-empty if enough hair accumulates in the bin (which can mostly be solved by having the bot run more frequently).
For longer hair, you're going to have to clean the brush frequently. We have two people with shoulder-blade length hair in our house, and it needs to be cleaned just about every cleaning cycle (TBF I shed a lot and could stand to brush my hair more often). Fortunately the brush compartment is very quick to clean - Ecovacs has done a good job of making it instant to disassemble and reassemble, and they include a hair removal tool that lives on the bot and works extremely well (so much so that I regularly steal it to clean my Dyson upright now). All-told, I spend about a minute cleaning it, and do that 2ish times per week.
That said, here's the bad news: There's obviously a design flaw in that hair (or at least long hair - don't have data for short-medium length) migrates very easily to the sides of the brush where the bearings are located. I anticipate that this is going to cause significant issues in the long term as hair gets sucked into the not-quite-sealed bearings. This is the stuff that actually has to be cleaned every time - the rest of the brush could probably go multiple weeks and still be ok.
The other issue that you'll likely run into RE: hair is the auto-empty. Especially on carpets, where long hair clumps with carpet fibers and dust, the bin has issues emptying probably 2/3rds of the time. This is especially likely if the bin gets fairly full of hair. It's not hard to solve, but if you have a dog (or humans) that shed a lot, you should anticipate that the auto-empty bin won't work most of the time. You might be able to get it to work consistently by running the bot frequently, but I wouldn't count on that when purchasing.
P.S. I haven't looked deeply at this yet, but think that failure to empty on carpets may also be the result of one other design flaw which is that the emptying path is really only designed for hard floors. The bottom of the plate where the robot sits is open, and that plate has two ports on top that interface with the emptying bin. On carpet, this causes a bunch of channeling around the sides of the base which lowers the resultant suction at the emptying ports. For carpet use, Ecovacs includes a little ramp for the bot to climb up (not really necessary on medium-pile carpet), but they totally miss the need to seal the bottom of the tower as far as I can tell (it's possible that I missed a component in the box somewhere, but I don't recall seeing mention of such a base plate in the startup guide either).
A:AnswerI don't have a wood stove or deal with wood chips, but I can tell you that my son's small legos are getting in it all the time. Sometimes they plug it up and sometimes it just sucks them up
A:AnswerHi,
Please kindly note that the working voltage of Deebot T8+ is 100-130V (U.S.A). If the working voltage could not match with the local voltage, you could try to use the converter. Should you need any assistance please reach out to our Customer Service Support Center and we’ll be happy to help out with any questions you may have. Thanks again for choosing Ecovacs product.
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A:AnswerHi,
DEEBOT is specially designed for hard ground floors such as wood floors, ceramic tile, and short wool carpet. If the wool of the carpet is too long, it does cause the Side Brushes to wind up. It is recommended that you fold up the long-wool carpet or do some shade around the carpet a little to clear the obstacles for DEEBOT so That DEEBOT can travel freely in your home. It is not recommended to let machines climb up to the carpet when it is mopping.
Should you need any assistance please reach out to Ecovacs Customer Service Support Center to help out with any questions you may have.
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A:AnswerHi,
Please kindly note that Deebot T8 could not know when the dust bin will be full. Please kindly clean up the dust bin in time when the deebot finishes several cleaning. Should you need any assistance please reach out to Ecovacs Customer Service Support Center to help out with any questions you may have.
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A:AnswerIt depends on the size of the accident.
The T8+ will not avoid a regular sized Sharpie on the ground sideways in front of it's path, but it will avoid a child's sock on the ground fluffed up to about an inch tall and the same length as the Sharpie.
If I press the sock down to make it flatter, the T8+ pushes right through it. I'd need to test with more accurately sized objects to be able to tell you at precisely what height and width the T8+ will try to avoid an object.
A:AnswerHi,
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A:AnswerIf the vac routinely gets full before it finishes cleaning I would set a schedule to vacuum half the areas at, say 8am. Then another schedule to vacuum the other areas at, say 10 am.
It would return, empty then resume and finish and empty without manual intervention.
