Roof Cleaner

Roof Cleaner is an item available in Plants vs. Zombies.

It functions exactly like an ordinary Lawn Mower in the front yard, serving as the player's last line of defense on the roof, and will return $50 at the end of every roof level if they are not used. It can be bought from Crazy Dave's Twiddydinkies for $3000 after completing Level 5-1.

Gallery

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  An idle Roof Cleaner on the roof
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  A moving Roof Cleaner (animated)
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  An idle Roof Cleaner
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  The Roof Cleaner for sale
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  A zombie being killed by a Roof Cleaner
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  The Roof Cleaner sold out
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  The tray of the Roof Cleaner
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  The brush of the Roof Cleaner
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  Another animated roof cleaner

In other languages

Please note that only official translations are used.

Language	Name	Description
English	Roof Cleaner
Simplified Chinese	屋顶推车 Wūdǐng Tuīchē	Roof Cart
Traditional Chinese	屋頂推車 Wūdǐng Tuīchē	Roof Cart

Trivia

• These cost $2000 more than Pool Cleaners, presumably because the Pool Cleaners only cover two lanes while the Roof Cleaners cover five and provide an additional bonus upon completion of every Roof level for each unused unit. In comparison, Pool Cleaners merely replace the two Lawn Mowers covering the water lanes and provide the same $50 bonus as a Lawn Mower for each surviving unit.
  • As such, the Roof Cleaner can actually earn money for the player. Assuming none are lost, the player can yield $250 at the end of each Roof level, allowing them to recoup their investment in as few as 12 successful attempts.
• In Level 5-10 and the mini-game Dr. Zomboss's Revenge, it can be crushed and be destroyed by Dr. Zomboss's fireball or iceball, which triggers the same sound byte as when a zombie is attacking a plant.
• It will not change its appearance when "trickedout" is typed, although the associated SFX is still played.
• When one edits saved data from Dr. Zomboss's Revenge to Whack a Zombie, and if they dig out a Flower Pot, their pointer on the screen will turn into this.
• As they are found on Roof levels, because of the roof's slope, this will slant upward, unlike the Pool Cleaner or Lawn Mower as they never appear on sloped levels.
• It will slant to the right because it is a 2D image meant to look like 3D, so in the real world, it would move slanted to the right.
• If a zombie makes contact with a Roof Cleaner, it will drive down the lane and run over any zombies it meets. This is true for Gargantuars (and Giga-gargantuars) as well, even though other instant kills, such as Squashes or Cherry Bombs, are only able to get rid of 1800 DPS of their health. This may suggest that the Roof Cleaner, as well as the Lawn Mower and Pool Cleaner, are the strongest weapons in the game, or the second strongest, considering that the Giant Wall-Nut can defeat Dr. Zomboss (observable if he was hacked to appear in wall-nut bowling 2) while the roof cleaner has no effect on him.
• The Roof Cleaners presumably replace Lawn Mowers as the latter are rear-heavy with their handles, and would most likely fall from the room immediately on deployment, whereas the Roof Cleaner's lower center of gravity precludes this issue.

See also

• Lawn Mower
• Pool Cleaner
• Roof

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