 REALLY WORKS!! |
| Review Date: February 9, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Sue Hudson "dog lover", |
I got one yesterday, had to charge it overnite. This thing REALLY scrubbed and cleaned a white kitchen floor so it looked new again!
I have 4 dogs and they love to track mud in the house, it got ALL the paw prints up in one washing. Washes and dries while you do other things, works best with the furniture out of the room, will clean under tall things...just bumps into the legs to find it's way around.
I love mine, you would love it too! |
I love my scooba - great time saver
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| Review Date: December 9, 2008 |
| Reviewer: A & A's Mom, Venetia PA |
Contrary to the other review, the scooba is a great investment. It saves time because YOU DO NOT HAVE TO MOP YOUR FLOOR. If you have some kind of great love of mopping, don't get the scooba. It does take about 45 minutes for scooba to do my kitchen (14 X 16 plus corners and cubby holes). The floor is spotless and clean. I have two preschoolers and three cats so my floor gets very dirty. Scooba has cleaned up everything from chocolate to frosting to gravy to ink. The floor is cleaner than I ever got it and I used to have to mop 2-3 times a day. Now I send out roomba to vacuum and scooba to clean.
Yes, you have to lift up your chairs (and the cat food and the garbage can) but once you have prepped your area, you have no more work to do. It takes about 5 minutes to set up the room and scooba and about 5 minutes to clean scooba and put the room back in order. While scooba cleans, the kids and I play - definitely a better use of time than mopping the floor.
I would highly recommend scooba. I have the remanufactured 5800 model (available on amazon). I have just purchased a 350 so I can clean the floor twice a day if needed (you have to wait for a battery recharge). If you have a small space, maybe scooba won't be worth it but I would rather spend my time with my children than mopping my floor for 30 minutes every day. |
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| Review Date: January 12, 2007 |
| Reviewer: Brian, Westerville, OH United States |
| Perfect for someone who is tired of constantly mopping their floors like I was. You cannot expect this to hit every corner but it will do a decent job on most of the area. It's best if it's in a confined space. Bathrooms are easy to clean. That being said, if you have a large area to clean, you must block it off or use the sensors to creat a smaller space. I have white tile extending from my front door, through my dining and kitchen area, and around to my garage/utility area. I have tried to have Scooba clean this all at once. It worked better then expected but I have learned to reduce the amount of cleaning area to do only sections at a time. |
takes more time than it's worth
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| Review Date: July 19, 2008 |
| Reviewer: suzann nicole, Tampa, FL |
I didn't like this for a number of reasons:
1. You have to vacuum or sweep first. Yes, it does "prep" but that is not the same as vacuuming. It holds about 2 tablespoons of dirt and fills up fast if you haven't vacuumed beforehand. I did not realize this and it ended up pushing around dirt.
2. My cats were terrified. I thought they were going to run away for good. They left and kept peeking in windows to see if it was still going.
3. It is loud. Not something you would want going while you're cooking, or reading, or nearby at all. But, you have to be home to add water if needed.
4. Yes, it will go around the furniture, but it's most effective if you move little things aside. Put dining chairs on top of the table, etc. Then you have to put everything back.
5. It takes a loooong time to clean each room, because in my opinion, it does not triangulate the room very well. It goes over the same spot like 5 times, which they use as a selling point. Unnecessary.
6. The whole process of cleaning my floor took several times longer than it would normally have taken me to do by hand. Not only that, but my old way was actually less strenuous. No moving furniture, waiting, moving the robot around, pulling telephone cords out of the robot, cleaning the robot.
7. For the price, it needs to be more labor saving. See reason #6.
I have great things to say about the iRobot Roomba vacuum. I use that, then mop with a rag on a brush with a long handle. The rag can be rinsed so there is no problem of mopping with dirty water. |
Still not ready for Prime Time audiences
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| Review Date: December 31, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Buck Batard, Real World USA |
I have a 5900 which would occasionally quit working due to the pump quitting, being full of solution but not putting it out, needing priming or other unexplainable reason, it doesn't want to function at all now -it won't put water on the floor, so I thought I'd buy the next generation- this one, the 340 which I bought from a retailer who had a trial policy like Amazon's and was cheaper. But right out of the box it had the same problem as my 5900 so I just returned it. Irobot needs to redesign that pump so it primes itself and stays primed. From the message boards, I see that this is a common problem for Scooba's. So I bought a Hoover H2510 that lists for $109 but sells here on Amazon as I write this for $36.99. It does a wonderful job putting the water down and picking it back up, its light and cordless, and the only complaint I would have is that the brush doesn't reach far enough to really scrub, although it still seems to pick up much more dirty water than my Scooba ever did. I suspect one of the other Hoover hard floor cleaners would be even better with the scrubbing, but I bought the H2510 because it's so light, cordless and easy to maneuver. And the price is right to boot.
I hope Irobot can get this model designed right, as I like the automatic function, but mine broke down so much and needed priming so much that it wasn't really automatic. I'd go prime the pump and in a few minutes it would be beeping at me that it was stuck or the the tank needed attention, which usually meant that the stupid pump needed priming again. I had really hoped that the new 340 I bought would have the problem solved, but it did the same thing right out of the box brand new.
But I do love my two Roombas which do a fabulous job, especially the model 560 that I just got from Amazon. If I were a potential buyer now, I'd wait for the next generation Scooba and read some of the Irobot review boards to see what problems people are having with the new model before you spend your money on one of these. For now, I'm very happy with my Hoover H2510 which is selling at a bargain price here on Amazon now. And it puts water down and picks it back up much better than Roomba possibly could. It just doesn't try to do both in one trip, you have to push a button to make the water come out, push a button forward for the scrub, and then push it back up for the suction, which picks up ALL the water. For 36.99, I found it to clean in some ways better than the Scooba. It just doesn't scub quite as hard so stained areas might need more attention when using the H2510. Maybe the Roomba designers can study that technology to see what Hoover got right and fix the Scooba accordingly.
If you're willing to spend a lot of time fiddling with it breaking down and quitting, then go ahead and buy it, but I can't recommend the unit based on my experience with it. |
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