T8 & N8 Robot Vacuum Pet Hair Dust Bin Fix
This video shows you how to modify the dust bin of your T8, N8 or T8 AIVI robot (or any robot that uses that same auto-empty docking station) to work well with pet hair. As you may know if you own this robot or have watched other reviews, Ecovac's auto-empty station design does very poorly with pet hair clumps. This mod completely takes care of that problem.
The t8 and t8aivi's auto empty docking station is extremely effective on most type of debris, but, as other reviewers have noted, it's not very good with pet hair now for some people it's enough to vacuum every day. But this is what my bin looks like. After about a week of daily vacuuming emptying, the bin doesn't actually do anything as this bin has been emptied several times, since this has built up like this. So as you can see here, the hair still in place. I hope you can see through the dirty plastic, but it's not going anywhere and i'll take it out to show you once it's done. Okay, so, as you can see, nothing happened, nothing at all, exactly the hair that was there before. Is there now. So why does this happen when pet hair is swirled together inside of a vacuum cleaner? It forms a cohesive clump, meaning it all sticks together, as you can see, with this clump of pet hair. If i try to pull it apart, there's some resistance to it. So, as you know, the th dust bin pulls the dirt out from two different ports, so in this photo, what you're seeing is one solid, hair clump, which is what happens inside the bin and it's being pulled from two directions. So, in order for that to succeed, the suction power has to be sufficient to rip the clump in half and it isn't, depending on the type of hair you have so when it pulls from two directions. It can't get it out one direction: it can both directions. It can't it's fighting itself, one direction it can. So what can you do about this? Well, you could shave your dogs, that'll, certainly work and it's kind of cute. You could also get one of these guys if you have cats or look at the cutie, but there is a less drastic solution. Essentially, what you want to do is cover one of the ports and you have to do that from the inside. So i've cleaned the left side of this bin just to get the dust out from the areas that the tape needs to stick to it doesn't have to be perfect. You want to be able to get it out later, just in case. You change your mind, because this makes it slightly less efficient with other types of debris which i'll show you in a bit, but it works perfectly fine with one port. In fact, the ports are about the same size as the port on the kneebot, and that does very well with emptying itself. So there we go tape in place and you have to do it on the inside, because these flaps move, although you could do it from the other side of the flaps, i guess so - hair back in the bin. Now i'm going to have it empty itself and you could see that the hair is just going to fly right out there. It goes. Let'S see that again in slow motion, no problem, that's the same hair clump that was stuck in there before just right out, and i've ran this for a few weeks um and with one of the ports covered up and it works great. So i'm going to show you and that's what happens when you try to do it? One-Handed all the hair is gone, let's put the handle back on been back in the robot and it's ready to go so one thing you should know is that if you do this, it's not going to fully empty itself of other types of debris. For example, this is what my bin looks like pretty much every day. This is what it always leaves there, but never more than this. So if you think about it, it doesn't actually need to fully empty itself. It just needs to make room for more dirt. So this works fine. I hope this helps you if you have problems with head hair, please like and subscribe if you've enjoyed this video until next time, i'm mike - and this is mr rumbato
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Comments
handgunderpound1: Thank you Bud!!! Just tried it and did an area vac quick where my dogs hang out as a quick test site where I knew I'd get a good amount of hair and sure enough when it got back to the station it sucked the giant clump right out. They need to set the bin up at the factory with a larger export hole at the one end than the 2 small ones at each end. Thanks again!
Shep: Omg, you my friend are a genious. I've been trying to trouble shoot this for weeks! I'll be trying this tomorrow for sure! The design flaw is absolutely bizzare and really makes me wonder about my T8
Mark Horvath: I concur.... you are a genius. A quick, reversible, effective and cheap (AKA Free) fix. We just got our Deebot N8 Pro+ and loved the concept of it's mapping capability and self cleaning. On the first go (as warned in other reviews) our dust bin was impacted with cat fur (I don't even think your fix would have worked) but after we let the bot clean under the beds a few times (and the cat fur was no longer accumulated for 3 years) the amount of fur in the bin was manageable and your fix worked perfectly. Now that we have our Deebot those areas will be regularly cleaned and the cat fur (and dust) kept to a minimum... particularly in those hard to get to areas where the Deebot shines. Thanks again!!!!
Jeff Skott: That was brilliant. Thank you for pointing that out. I just bought my first robot vacuum and have cats (Persians with lots of hair). This was my first negative on the vacuum - not all the cat hair was moving. I just tried it, and it worked great. Thank you!
Shelter Mutts: Thank you Thank youThank you! This worked for our Ecovacs T8 AIVI and border collie. Only problem is that now I’ll have to buy bags for the auto empty station that never got anything in it before. I actually took the roller brush out on the slate part of our house and it did pretty well, and emptied itself too. I’ll put the roller back in for the carpeted half of the house. Your video was much appreciated!
NB Lifer: WoW! I returned my T9 and bought an N8 because the auto dock was essentially free on this model which I thought was appropriate because it didn't work because of pet and human hair. A shame because the N8 isn't as good.
Tomas Holseng: Thanks for this video. I have massive amounts of dog and girlfriend hair. This mod works much better for me :)
Frank Novella: I have a T8 aivi and have been on the fence about geting a auto empty station because of the issue with pet hair (i have three dogs) but now because of this fix i can get one. Thanks for the video!
the Muller Sales Group: Worked like a charm! I have a Norweigen Elkhound he SHEDS! Great idea... why could I not think of it
VOX Gaming: I just discover the new tip. Instead you tape the full size of bin, just tape it 1/4 or the half of it. It helped fix all the things you guys got ( solid thing can’t go, and thick pet hair ).
Nicole Paling: I was hesitant to buy this vacuum because of the hair reviews...I bought it and figured I could just vacuum everyday.... Even at that it gets stick. So I had a thought of blocking one side and came to YouTube to see if anyone had done it yet lol. Thank you for confirming my hypothesis. I'm slightly irritated that I spent $500 on a vacuum I have to modify but I'll give it a shot for a while before I decide to send it back....
Tesla Mom: Thank you so much. Video is very helpful.
Tony McCombs: Thanks. I'll give it a go, was going to return it to the store today because it was so disappointing...
Dion Mellidis: Legend this works a dream even on the 9
Alexander Ovdiy: Hi. Thanks for the video. I want this robo vacuum, but tell me how brush is friendly with hair? How often you clean brush from hair your pet ?
Dan Richardson: I take it you ignore the app's prompts to clean the filter I have the same issue, and have resorted to having the vacuum not only run daily, but automatically self-empty after every couple of rooms
Mr.Snufkin: Pls review N8 pro. I heard its object recognition is really good.
AdamsTechReviews: Nice tip...I have a MASSIVE tip for you..Trust me....For your videos make sure you use tags and in the titles you have to put more info like for this title I would of done. Deebot T8 & N8 Robot Vacuum Pet hair Dust Bin Fix...should get you a lot more views!
Andrew McSpadden: what if you leave the other side a little open instead of completely blocking it? does that help with small debris?
Mike Quall: We have 3 family members with long hair and two dogs (one with long hair). We’ve had our deebot n8+ less than a week. I haven’t tried tapping one port closed yet but 3 times out of 6 the dust and hair has gotten stuck half way out of one port with nothing showing trying to come out of 2nd port. I have pictures.
TacticalTrexe: Well it 100% fixed it for me man , very weird mechanic that dosent work the way its supposed to lol atleast easy work around !
stereode1uxe: Wondering if you segmented the bin into 2 parts it would achieve the same thing?
Tesla Mom: Do you know what’s other dock is for Deebot N8 plus? There is one main dock where it empties the suction box. In the box there is another dock which is plain without a big dock. I took that upstairs and it did second map and battery was low after 122 minutes so it needed to charge and I thought it will come to the small dock but it was keep looking for the big dock which is downstairs. Haha
Christopher Smeriglio: I almost returned my N8 before I saw this. Awesome robot, terrible design... The whole reason i bought a robot vacuum is to clean up after my 85lb golden that sheds with every step.
GooseandPancakes: Any update on how this has worked long term? i just purchased one and had this exact problem from the start .
Maxxmentum: Super thanks.
Bà Loan Vblog: Actually, T8+ with your fix still can't do good with my dog hairs. Sad. I will wait a little bit more for other brands and will sell this one then.
Robot Vacuums Suck! By: James F Laurie: I’ve already been doing that. Yes it works! Bad design. Not sure what Ecovacs will say.
WookieeBarber: Great humor, great video
anon: I wonder if this will work with long human hair aka the female variety?