How does it do with rugs that have fringe? null

How does the IRobot 960 do with fringe carpets?

I have fringed rugs on terrazzo floors. My Roomba 960 choked and wrestled with the fringes the first time out. This was definitely something it was not designed to overcome or deal with properly. In desperation, before it ruined the fringes I took a brush and straightened the tasssles of the fringe and took my roll of 2 inch wide packing tape, transparent, and taped the fringes to the floor. Problem solved. It rides right over them and cleans well. I'm not sure this is a permanent solution, but I'm looking for better. Others may find this solution ridiculous, but it works.

Not very well. I behaves the same way a regular vacuum would if you come in from the wrong angle. I would recommend picking up a fuzzy/fringy rug before launching the Roomba. Either that, or roll the edge up in a way to let to Roomba think it hit a wall.

Anybody who answered a room a works on rugs with fringes is lying. It ruins rugs. The more expensive and better quality your rug, the more it gets caught. I love my room a, but love my rugs more. We stopped using it.

The stiff rotating brush catches tassels and untwists and tugs at them, causing significant wear and damage to the tassels. For a carpet whithout tassels, it works fine.

This would most definitely get caught on those rugs and shut down.

The Roomba stops, turns around and climbs over the fringe on my oriental rugs. I am quite pleased with it's good cleaning.

We have a lot of fringed oriental rugs, and our recently acquired Roomba 614 sometimes has trouble with them, and appears to be doing a small amount of damage to the fringes. Here's what fixed the problem. I bought a lot of 4 inch wide, 4 foot long, 1/8 inch thick vinyl baseboard moulding. (See, for example, VPI part VC418L04M) The moulding has a curved edge that normally would be placed against the floor, with small ridges on the wide part meant to hold adhesive with which you'd glue the moulding to the wall, or kitchen cabinet toe kick. Splice pieces of moulding together to the appropriate length to cover one fringed rug edge using heavy duty duct tape. Cover the fringe with the moulding, ridged side up. Put a couple of 6 inch long pieces of duct tape on the moulding, close to each end, and then use a couple of short pieces of blue painter's masking tape to tape the curved edge of the moulding to the floor. (The blue tape doesn't stick to ridged vinyl at all well, thus the duct tape at the ends of the moulding: blue tape likes to adhere to duct tape.) The Roomba doesn't dislodge the moulding, the blue tape doesn't disfigure hardwood floors (and comes up easily), and prepping the half dozen rugs on the first floor of our house only takes ten minutes. I am pleased with how well this works.

it eats fringes. the invisible walls are a joke.

It lowers the speed at times and it tries to see how it should handle when its on the corners and on top of the rug... it does a really great job. In addition, when the corners flips upwards its able to learn but it actually vacuums completely. Specially those sets that you put in the bathroom. You wont be dissapointed on this model.

I have a Roomba 960. It hates the fringe on my rug, and hates area rugs generally speaking. For the rugs that are more basic, I understand 3M strips help to stick the rug to the floor. However, in my living room I have a more quality, afgani rug, with 2" fringe. I'm hesitant to use anything on it that could hurt it, but, my roomba has trouble with it even on the edges. The corners are the worst. I'm trying some different options, but overall, while it does clean better than my much older model, it is majorly problematic on the nicer rugs edges.

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How does the IRobot 960 do with fringe carpets?
Answered by Gracie 7 years ago
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I have fringed rugs on terrazzo floors. My Roomba 960 choked and wrestled with the fringes the first time out. This was definitely something it was not designed to overcome or deal with properly. In desperation, before it ruined the fringes I took a brush and straightened the tasssles of the fringe and took my roll of 2 inch wide packing tape, transparent, and taped the fringes to the floor. Problem solved. It rides right over them and cleans well. I'm not sure this is a permanent solution, but I'm looking for better. Others may find this solution ridiculous, but it works.
Answered by PeteH 6 years ago
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Not very well. I behaves the same way a regular vacuum would if you come in from the wrong angle. I would recommend picking up a fuzzy/fringy rug before launching the Roomba. Either that, or roll the edge up in a way to let to Roomba think it hit a wall.
Answered by Steve 8 years ago
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Anybody who answered a room a works on rugs with fringes is lying. It ruins rugs. The more expensive and better quality your rug, the more it gets caught. I love my room a, but love my rugs more. We stopped using it.
Answered by NJOYLIFEINSD 6 years ago
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The stiff rotating brush catches tassels and untwists and tugs at them, causing significant wear and damage to the tassels. For a carpet whithout tassels, it works fine.
Answered by Mishi 7 years ago
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This would most definitely get caught on those rugs and shut down.
Answered by John 7 years ago
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The Roomba stops, turns around and climbs over the fringe on my oriental rugs. I am quite pleased with it's good cleaning.
Answered by Anonymous 8 years ago
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We have a lot of fringed oriental rugs, and our recently acquired Roomba 614 sometimes has trouble with them, and appears to be doing a small amount of damage to the fringes. Here's what fixed the problem. I bought a lot of 4 inch wide, 4 foot long, 1/8 inch thick vinyl baseboard moulding. (See, for example, VPI part VC418L04M) The moulding has a curved edge that normally would be placed against the floor, with small ridges on the wide part meant to hold adhesive with which you'd glue the moulding to the wall, or kitchen cabinet toe kick. Splice pieces of moulding together to the appropriate length to cover one fringed rug edge using heavy duty duct tape. Cover the fringe with the moulding, ridged side up. Put a couple of 6 inch long pieces of duct tape on the moulding, close to each end, and then use a couple of short pieces of blue painter's masking tape to tape the curved edge of the moulding to the floor. (The blue tape doesn't stick to ridged vinyl at all well, thus the duct tape at the ends of the moulding: blue tape likes to adhere to duct tape.) The Roomba doesn't dislodge the moulding, the blue tape doesn't disfigure hardwood floors (and comes up easily), and prepping the half dozen rugs on the first floor of our house only takes ten minutes. I am pleased with how well this works.
Answered by GeorgeG 4 years ago
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it eats fringes. the invisible walls are a joke.
Answered by lulu 5 years ago
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It lowers the speed at times and it tries to see how it should handle when its on the corners and on top of the rug... it does a really great job. In addition, when the corners flips upwards its able to learn but it actually vacuums completely. Specially those sets that you put in the bathroom. You wont be dissapointed on this model.
Answered by George 8 years ago
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