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It's time to stop mopping. From iRobot, the makers of the top-selling iRobot Roomba Vacuuming Robot, comes a revolutionary new way to clean your hard floors. Meet iRobot Scooba Floor Washing Robot, the world's first floor-washing robot for the home that preps, washes, scrubs, and dries your floor--all by itself. Scooba not only does the job for you, but does it better. Unlike mop and bucket methods that just spread dirty water around your floor, Scooba uses fresh Clorox Scooba cleaning solution from start to finish. With the press of a button, the robot will leave your floors clean, dry, and ready to walk on. Scooba is simple to use, and safe on all sealed hardwood, tile, and linoleum flooring
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Technical Details
- Floor-washing robot cleans sealed hardwood, tile, linoleum, and more- Can handle up to 250 square feet on a single battery charge
- Uses water, water and vinegar, or Clorox Scooba cleaning solution
- Preps, washes, scrubs, and dries; cliff sensor; 1 virtual wall included
- Measures 14-3/4 by 14-3/4 by 3-1/2 inches; 1-year warranty
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By Bold Consumer (Oklahoma City, OK USA)
Last year I obsessed about the tile in my kitchen, hallway, breakfast room, and utility room. LOTS of tile to obsess about. My 3-year-old grandson had been visiting and came in to show me the bottoms of his socks, which were dirty. I had been mopping. The cleaning lady had been mopping. I couldn't imagine why we still had so much dirt. We had even been using the steam cleaners, which were getting up lots of dirt, but, as my grandson showed me, there was lots left. Okay, one reason was the 2 dogs who go in and out during rainstorms, red Oklahoma clay mud, and the fact that I drag in mud when I'm doing yard work and gardening.
I tried 20 or so different tile cleaners. Somewhere down the line I realized that it wasn't the TILE that was dirty; it was the GROUT! So I went at it scientifically, trying each grout-cleaning product to find one that would safely and effectively clean the grout, without having to be scrubbed. I have much too much tile to have time to scrub the grout.
Here's an example of some of my notes BEFORE I discovered how well Scooba works.
-Hoover Grout Cleaner - Works well with a little bit of scrubbing.
-409 Granite Cleaner - I love the almost non-existent but nice odor and the way it works, but, like everything else, takes scrubbing.
-Oxi-Clean works well, but takes scrubbing and if I use too much, leaves a white residue.
-SHOUT! - Does work. May need to repeat or scrub a little more the first time. Easy to spray on, but requires scrubbing.
-SoftScrub with Bleach - Works, but bleaches tile and grout, STINKS!. Great for WHITE tile/grout.
-Clorox Cleanup - Doesn't really clean the grout, but stinks!
-Scrubbing Bubbles - Doesn't work.
-SoftScrub (plain) doesn't work.
-Spray and Wash - Doesn't work.
-Zep - Works but stinks and requires scrubbing
There were others, but there was nothing positive to say about them.
At that point I got my new Scooba, I had worn one out several years ago and hadn't replaced it until now. It worked! It actually gets the grime out of the grout, over time, not instantly, and doesn't require scrubbing. I used it maybe 3 times a day in some areas, but it takes little effort to fill it with the Scooba cleaning product (don't use anything else because you may end up with a dead Scooba) and then empty out the dirty water when you're finished.
My tile had always been fairly clean, but now, when I use it, which isn't every week, it's squeaky clean. The grout is now almost completely back to its original color.
I love my Scooba!
Let me add that my cleaning lady uses the Hoover Spin-Mate floor cleaner and I have a review of that as well. She loves it, but she has never used the Scooba of course, because that's not what cleaning ladies do.
By Thomas Zachary (West Hills, CA USA)
About two weeks ago I ordered the Roomba and immediately fell in love with it. It does an amazing job of cleaning our carpets, rugs, and wood and tile floors. Being so pleased with this product we immediately ordered the Dirt Dog for the shop and the Scooba 330. I was very hopeful for the performance of the Scooba.
When I started running the first one that we received I noticed it was leaving behind a great deal of water, traveling fast and missing entire parts of the floor, and that it's algorithm for travel seemed to leave it in some spots for a very long time and yet never hit other spots at all.
Not being ready to give up on the Scooba, we evaluated all the parts to make sure that everything was connected correctly and nothing was clogging the vacuum. Check there -- everything okay. I then ran a test with just 1 cup of water and measured only 1/3 cup in the dirty water tank when all the clean water was used. So Scooba had left 2/3 of the water on my floor. I called the iRobot folks and asked them how much water I should expect Scooba to pick up and was told that it should pick up all the water that it drops down.
Hearing this, I decided I should try out a different unit -- just in case we had received a bad one. Kudos to the great folks at Amazon for immediately shipping me a replacement that arrived the following morning. Unfortunately, the replacement Scooba had the exact same issues as the original.
This time I measured 3 1/4 cup of water in and only received 1 1/3 cup back in the dirty water tank -- a slight improvement but still leaving practically 60% of the water on my floor. What I was left with were huge water spots everywhere.
This one also seemed to have problems with the travel algorithm. My Roomba effectively gets an entire room -- while the Scooba missed several areas of my approximately 250 square foot kitchen entirely -- places it never even ran over.
This one also races over spots and you can see where part of the area that it covers is not even wet. In fact I had three juice spots in the middle of my floor that I saw Scooba travel over probably half a dozen times and yet never clean up.
I will grant you that it did clean part of my kitchen and the water in the dirty tank was indeed dirty. But having been so impressed with Roomba I am sadly returning the second Scooba that I received. I think that Scooba needs first and foremost an actual wet vac so that it picks up most of the water that it lays down. It also needs to have more consistent cleaning when it goes over an area, and an algorithm for movement that is as effective as Roombas.
If you don't mind water spots on your floor or don't mind following along behind it to dry up your floors, it doesn't do a bad job. But at this point I will wait for a few more versions to come out to see if they implement any of these necessary changes to make this a great product. For now Roomba and my Swiffer Wet Jet do the job much better.
By Emilio (Los Angeles, CA USA)
I read and followed the instructions carefully, charged the battery as recommended and put the robot to work. Well...it didnt last long. After 5 minutes it stopped working with a service light indicator on and 2 beeps error code which means that you need to contact the support to have the unit repaired. I am returning the item. I will not bother browsing forums about what to do or giving them a second try.
iRobot did a very good job with the roomba (I am very happy with my 530) but my experience with the scooba 330 is unacceptable.
By blownaway (san diego, ca)
This doesn't really save you much time with mopping, because you still need to go back after the Scooba is done and wipe up the excess water. If you leave the house with the Scooba running, you will come back to a dry floor with water spots all over the place.
For me, the hard part about mopping is all the other steps involved in the process: moving furniture, sweeping, drying. The Scooba only eliminates one step - the actual mopping. But you still need to fill the Scooba, set it up, and clean it. It's more work than just doing the dang mopping yourself.
Bottom line: if you're looking to save time with this gadget, you won't. Don't waste your money. Way overpriced.
By Tonya Flesher (Oxford, MS)
I have owned for over two years and it has only worked about 5 or 6 times during that period. When it works, it takes so many attempts and so much work that I could mop the floor manually in less time. There are always error messages that cause so much frustation.
We have also owned 3 Roombas that have each worked for a short time but eventually fail. The maintenance required and the expensive battery replacements negate the positive benefits of these robots.
The concept is good but the engineering is faulty.
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