iRobot Scooba Floor Washing Robotic Hard Surface Cleaner
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of iRobot Scooba Floor Washing Robotic Hard Surface Cleaner
Customer Review: Gave me a new floor!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
When I received Scooba, I ran it in my kitchen. It is very large, so I sectioned it into two with the virtual wall. The first half looked great. It did leave the floor a little damp (not as dry as I would have hoped). The second half (with much more traffic) did ok...not very impressed.
I ran the Scooba a second time on the second half of my kitchen and couldn't believe what I saw!! The floor must of had some type of sticky film on it. The floor was once again white, instead of dingy grey!!!! And, when I cleaned the brush, I noticed the sticky substance that it apparently cleaned up. I ran it one more time on the second half of my kitchen and I am completely blown away at how my floor looks!!! I never thought it would come this clean. Really!! The floors are old and not well taken care of. You could never tell now.
Very easy to use. Not as tempermental as I've read. No problems so far. Very easy to clean and maintain. The only thing I've noticed is that it doesn't dry as completely as I thought it would. Other than that, I really love it.
Thought I was going to have to return Scooba, but now it's a KEEPER!!! Thank you iRobot!!!!
Customer Review: Good but could use a few improvements
Summary: 3 Stars
It works well when you use it often enough to keep your floors a consistent level of cleanliness. If they get too dirty, or have dried spills, the mop doesn't work as well and you may need to let it run more than once. It's a great feature that it picks up the dirty water, but i wish it were a bit better. The floors are consistently fairly damp. I had a hoover mop/vacuum that did a better job of squeegeeing, but then again, it ran on house current. The mop barely gets stuck, but unfortunately our stove is just at the right height. If the mop approaches it at the right angle, it gets stuck every time. It's frustrating...you'd think the mop could sense a tight squeeze clearance-wise and back off like it does with stairs.Customer Review: Good for some, perhaps, but not for me and my family
Summary: 2 Stars
Background: I bought the iRobot *ROOMBA* in December 2006 and it has turned out to be a TERRIFIC product. I use it everyday to keep the kids' carpeted bedrooms clean, plus on our tiled floor throughout the house. Liking the Roomba so much, I bought the Scooba, but I wasn't nearly as impressed.
What makes the Roomba so nice is it takes no time at all to maintain -- dump the dust bin, peel away the dust from the filter, and every so often, clean the beater brushes. Easy.
The Scooba, however, is a lot more work: clean a screen filter, clean a vacuum port, clean the brushes, rinse the water bin. That's not really too much work, but I there are two things that made this a deal-buster for me:
1) It can't sense dirty spots on the floor and clean them well, like the Roomba does.
2) It can't really clean that much floor space.
Roomba is great because it senses an especially dirty area of the floor and it hovers over the area to clean it well. Scooba doesn't do this, so some floor stain which needs extra effort doesn't get the extra effort, and so you still wind up hand-wiping the spots afterward. That defeats the point of the product.
With my Roomba, I can put it into two bedroom and a small family room and get all 3 rooms cleaned on one charge. Or, I can clean all the tiled floor on one charge (about 500 sq. feet). With Scooba, it says it clean up to 200 sq. ft., meaning I can't get all my tiled floor cleaned in one cycle.
So, the Roomba stays, the Scooba goes. I'm looking at a Hoover All-Terrain steam cleaner to see if that can pull dual-duty: cleaning my carpets and my tiled floor.
Customer Review: Great . . . . when it works
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought a scooba 5900 from Sharper Image last spring. Thankfully, I also got the extended warranty. I returned my 7th one this past weekend and since Sharper Image does not sell the Scooba anymore, I got store credit for the purchase. As I noted in the title, the Scooba is great when it works. It really does clean wood and tile floors. We used ours about once a week to clean up the kitchen and dining area and occasionally to clean tile bathroom floors (we have four kids under 5). There were two main reasons we returned our 7 robots. First, eventually (~2-3 months) the batteries simply failing to hold a charge long enough to comeplete a cleaning cyle and second the mechanism that pumps the cleaning solution either stopped working or in one case never worked. I am considering getting one of the 5800 series, but I will only do so if I can return it locally and get an extended warranty. We also have a roomba and it has worked much better. I am a fan of irobot, but the scooba has too many faults. Hopefully they will come out with a newer model soon.Customer Review: Great Idea, doen't last
Summary: 2 Stars
I've owned by 5900 for 14 months. In that time I've only used it about 20 times. It worked great for the first few months. Then the battery started acting up. It would stop 5 minutes into cleaning. I kept the battery in the charger as the documentation recommended. After contacting iRobot, they sent a new battery and recommended against the documentation and to remove the battery 8 hrs after putting it in. So now I have a new battery and a couple weeks later the vacuum fan started making noise. It would leave excessive water on the floor. Next problem, all the lights are on and it does't start (Service code 8, Power, Clean, Check Tank, Check Brush and I'm stuck). I follow the customer support recommendations for taking everything out of the Scooba, including the battery, waiting ½ hour and put it all back in. Same problem and the Customer Rep says that the 1yr warranty is over and that all they can do is offer me a new one at a slight discount from full retail.
I cannot recommend it. It's cool and works well for a couple months, but it doesn't last. With only 20 washings until it died, it's about $18 per floor wash. I've made the mistake of recommending this early on to my friends and now they are having problems also. Most of them start having problems about 6 months to a year after purchase.