Keep your pets clean
The furry members of our households are the biggest culprits when it comes to hair-shedding. Keeping your pets clean is one of the best ways to ensure clean floors and surfaces. Sticking to a regular brushing and washing routine can help minimise the shed.
But, if they’re particularly hairy breeds or you’ve let their grooming schedule slide, you may need to put in a little extra effort to keep your floors clean and hair-free. To collect excess pet hair from carpet, consider using a pumice stone. Gently scrape the stone along the surface to help leverage and gather the hair. For hard floors, you can try an electrostatic or microfibre mop.
Try a robot vacuum
A dream for people who want to spend less time cleaning, robot vacuums let you totally set and forget. There are some high-powered options on the market and the bar for futuristic features keeps getting raised.
Take Roborock’s S7 MaxV Ultra, which can be operated totally remotely and is designed to see in the dark. Its night vision sensor detects objects around your house in darkness just like it would during the day. This means you can let your robot vacuum do its thing overnight, and wake up the next morning to spotless, dust-free floors.
Roborock’s S7 MaxV Ultra can be operated totally remotely, and has night vision and self-cleaning functions.Credit:Roborock
In welcome news for people who hate tipping out the vacuum dust bag, the S7 MaxV Ultra is also self-cleaning. Once the device returns to its docking station after vacuuming, it empties itself and gives you up to seven weeks of maintenance-free floor cleaning.
Automate the mopping
For some reason, mopping the floors can feel like one of the hardest chores to muster the energy for – but you can try automating it. A time-saving bonus of a robot vacuum model like the S7 MaxV Ultra is that, before it vacuums, it can also mop. An in-built sensor detects whether a surface is carpet or hard floor, so the machine can alternate between mopping and vacuum mode — to avoid any wet carpets.
Clean while you’re on the go
If you simply find it too hard to find the time to stay home and clean – consider doing it while you’re out. By hooking your robot vacuum and mop up to the Roborock mobile app on your phone, you can control it remotely, or see a live stream of where the device has already cleaned and where it’s headed. Pretty neat.
The Roborock S7 MaxV Ultra, including its auto-empty docking station, is available now at Godfreys, Bing Lee, and Amazon.