| 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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 Do not buy it! Does no work! |
| Review Date: July 27, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Carla Ribas, Florida |
This series has a problem! DO not buy it! Choose another series than Scooba 330.
I was talking to a salesman from a big store and he told me they had the same problem with almost all this model. They had it all returned.
Here is what happened:
I bought this product for my kitchen floor. At first I noticed it did no clean that spots hard to clean on the floor ( I had to use the broom) .But anyway, as I have pets and kids at home, I thought it was a little help.
For my disappointment it stopped working after 4 weeks I had oppened the package! |
Retarded cousin of the iRobot Roomba
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| Review Date: July 21, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Brian A. Egge, Sydney, Australia |
The idea of a Roomba which instead of vacuuming washes floors makes a lot of sense. Unfortunately, the two products differ, and seem to be produced by two different companies. Here's a list of differences:
* The Roomba has springs on it's wheels, which allow it to go over minor bumps. The Scooba wheels are fixed and as a result the Roomba will get stuck on t-molding in front of a door, or between tile and hardwood.
* The Roomba can self dock. If I run the Scooba when I go to bed, I can't run it again in the morning because I have to find it and have it charge for four hours. If it returned to the dock, it would at least be ready to clean again after the water is changed.
* The Roomba has nice sounding beeps, while the Scooba has much more primitive beeps.
* The Roomba is faster and slows down before walls. The Scooba moves slowly but is always ramming into things.
* The Roomba has a little brush to clean corners, which is missing on the Scooba.
* The Roomba can be scheduled to run automatically. A delayed start would be a helpful improvement on the Scooba.
* The Roomba can usually get itself unstuck. The Scooba will stop immediately if it thinks it might be stuck.
* The Roomba is far quieter than the Scooba.
Other than both machines being round, they are quite different inside. I'd love to give my Scooba a brain transplant from my Roomba, as the Roomba is much smarter.
The Scooba also requires a lot more work than the Roomba, so isn't so much a time saver. The 330 can only do a 200-250 sqft room at a time. After each room, you need to find the Scooba, empty and refill the tank, clean the brushes, clean two filters, and charge the Scooba for four hours. |
Poor battery life and no customer support
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| Review Date: July 17, 2010 |
| Reviewer: wheresthebeef, |
| First, believe the people that say this has a horrible battery life. I maybe used it 20 times and the battery will not hold a charge. Second, customer support is useless. Their response to the problem is to buy another $70 battery from them. Worthless. |
Great Machine! Hassle Free. Clean Floors!
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| Review Date: July 4, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Karlinhos, Los Angeles, CA USA |
This is a great machine. Sure, it's not absolutely perfect, but for the price, it's well worth it and the only one like it on the market. It cleans well and most importantly, it does it all by itself. I fill it up, walk the dogs, come back and it's done, clean floors!
As others have commented, it does leave a nice layer of water on the floors, but it's a small trade-off for the cleaning job it does. Nothing a quick dragging of a towel on the floor will take care of in a jiffy, if wanted.
Purchasing tip: Buy from Hammacher Schlemmer. They have an "Unconditional Lifetime Guarantee," where for whatever reason, they will exchange the machine for free. They even include a return shipping label (with instructions) with the Scooba for easy returns. There are many testimonials online stating exchanges continuing in upwards of 5 years after the date of purchase! Also, Google "Hammacher coupon" for a code that will save you on shipping charges ($20).
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Still not my fav irobot product, but liking clean floors
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| Review Date: June 30, 2010 |
| Reviewer: Delene Posey, NC |
While my scooba does a good job when it does clean, for me it was not the wisest buy. I have a roomba and a dirt dog and loved them so much I thought I'd ease my life even further by buying the scooba (I hate cleaning bathrooms). When scooby arrived he did a FANTASTIC job cleaning the tile in our old house. You could see the difference (night and day) between the tile he'd cleaned versus the areas he couldn't fit into. The water in his dirty tank was always gross beyond belief, which meant he was doing a great job!
However, as the first month went on, I found that the effort required in maintaining him and the cost involved in purchasing his "special" solution was more effort than pleasure. By the 2nd month his tank had been replaced twice (he just would suddenly start leaking for no good reason - a well-known issue with the scooba tanks). I purchased him from HSN with an extended warranty, but they don't do anything to help during the 1st yr, so Irobot replaced the tanks, which strangely did not fit. They replaced again, now we have to turn scooby upside down to remove tanks and a new symptom - spinning aimlessly in circles without cleaning. I reported the issue to irobot last dec and never got around to sending him off. (I say this as an example of how unnecessary scooby had become in my life). I went back to using my old swiffer mop. I get my roomba and dirt dog to clean, then go in behind them and mop.
When scooby did work, he left a lot of water on the floor, which took a lot longer to dry than the swiffer does, so I'd have to go in behind him and dry the floors (not so great when you have laminate or active toddlers who like sliding on wet floors).
The other issue I have read about with scooby is that using the cheapest cleaning solution of vinegar and water (which doesn't smell great, but is a lot cheaper than buying their solution) is that over time the vinegar eats away the grout between tiles. However, I don't think it's just the vinegar as a combination of that and the scooba scrubbing brushes.
So while we're in the process of thinking about what kind of new home we'd like, we're trying to think of what kind of floors would be most appropriate for scooby to clean! Conclusion: I don't want to replace laminate because it warps from the water left behind and I don't want to regrout every year or 2 because of the vinegar and brushes, which leaves us with carpet (allergic), hard wood (out of our price range), and vinyl (OUCH!). We've decided to go with the type of flooring we like best and not deal with scooby. We'll take him out once in a while to do a thorough clean (like a carpet steam cleaner) and put him away again for an extended period, till we feel the need for a deep clean again.
IN the meantime, I've adjusted my dirt dog to swiffer mop my floors for me!!! No water left behind and I would say she does a better job than me (except on the corners)!
07.15.2010 (UPDATE)
Irobot has the absolute BEST customer service and they replaced my scooba (still waranteed) without questions. Since getting scooby back, I have been using him more, despite warnings not to use on laminate floors, I'm a mom with a toddler who LOVES eating off the floor and after scooby did his first clean of my kitchen floor (which gets swiffer mopped everyday) and I saw the color of the water in the dirty water tank, I had to say I'd rather have scooby clean than me and KNOW that my floors are clean enough to eat off of! Tiles in the bathroom - been using their new cleaner and if we have to regrout, so be it. They look MUCH better than when I
clean them. I still don't like the amount of water left behind when he cleans, the dirty corners, and his ability to get stuck (thus needing to be babysat). I also don't like that my floors look duller when he's done, but a quick use of roomba takes care of that.
Now that scooby is running again and I am liking him more than when I first used him, I felt it was only fair to change add to the initial review and am again considering putting in floors that suit scooby versus suit me! |
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