I’ve a couple of stand fans for circulating air and cooling the rooms down but seems like the roomba 560 so not really like them.

The roomba 560 will climb onto the base of these stand fans and occasionally get stuck there, making that the last destination of its cleaning cycle.

So how can I avoid such situations? After some thoughts, I reckoned that I could:

1. Replace all my standing fans with wall mounted fans; or
2. Have a high tech solution of carefully positioned virtual wall(s) to exclude the fan area; or
3. Live without the fans and use air-con instead; or
4. Make the fan base difficult / impossible to mount

Well, seems like the first three are either too expensive or challenging so I would go for option 4 instead!

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