| iRobot's award-winning floor washing robot preps, washes, scrubs and dries up to 500 square feet in a single cleaning cycle. The Scooba 350 uses only clean solution to wash sealed hardwood, tile and linoleum floors. Scooba cleans hard-to-reach places like under cabinet edges, tables and chairs. Uses clean tap water, water and vinegar or deep cleaning, fresh scented Clorox® Scooba Cleaning Solution. 4-stage cleaning process preps washes scrubs dries. Preps - picks up dirt, sand and crumbs. Washes - uses only clean solution to wash floors (mops just spread around dirty water). Scrubs - powerful brush removes dirt, grime and stuck-on messes. Dries - lifts dirty water from floors |
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 Nice idea works great but after a few months things fall apart. |
| Review Date: June 18, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Mark Chad, Eveleth, MN |
| My husband bought the scooba for me for christmas and it was awesome. It swept the floor and mopped it. It worked great. Then only about 4-5 months after having it things literally started falling apart. The valve crumbled apart when i tried to clean it. Then the handle stopped working to open it so we had to use a knife to open it then finally the handle fell off. Now we are left with a pile of parts. I tried emailing the company and the website is a joke.They put you through hoops just to tell you that you can't email them without an account even when you do have an account it says you don't have one. So i called the company and they were not helpful and told me there was nothing i could do except by a whole new body and tank without the battery for $180. I think its a great idea but a complete rip off. By the way my husband spent well over $200 on this just to use it for 5 months then toss it. |
Mops & Drys unattended,but needs more attention than vacuum robot
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| Review Date: May 2, 2009 |
| Reviewer: rane, silicon valley, south bay area ,CA |
Love the idea!
One thing that I wish I knew was that although this robot is rated to clean the square-footage of our floor, it must do it in 2steps (it'll stop and you must change the tank). The next size up would do our whole floor in 1 go. Since this is a second home, it is difficult to baby-sit it than if it was at our main home. Also, you need to clean it out right when it finishes cleaning, again not ideal for running as we walk out the door because it can't set until the next visit. For these reasons, the vacuum would have been a better match. (Plus we could also use it at the main house).
Problem with OUR robot, is that the suction drying does not work. So the floor is left wet to air dry. Not critical, as it leaves the floor clean, and I usually run it when I'm stepping out for a bit. Still, a bit annoying because I paid a pretty penny for something that is supposed to vacuum, scrub, wash, and dry all in the same pass!
Since the hardwood floors are not at our main house, I'd be open to swap this mopping robot for a similar-rated vacuum (with auto dock and auto scheduling).. good option for someone who hates mopping as much as I do!
I simply would get more usage from a vacuum (dog hair!).
Also, I msut say our dog is frightened of everything from Vacuums to Water, but does not mind this floor robot ! Great job on the design!
I really wish they named this Scoomba for consistency with roomba. Also I hate the confusion with utterly unrelated "scuba". Anyway, it is Very common for people to refer to is as scoomba.. it's natural. Easier fo rbrand recognition, too. Well, we can't all be in charge! Anyway product is cool. |
Good at some things, not good on others
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| Review Date: April 17, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Dan Z, Northeast Tennessee, home of the free |
What it is good at:
Cleaning lightly soiled smooth and flat hard floors.
What it is not good at:
Cleaning heavy dirt or heavy spots, such as jelly.
Cleaning hardwood floors with distinct seams between boards (leaves dirty fluid in seams).
Cleaning textured or rough-surface tiles (leaves dirty fluid on surfaces).
Cleaning tiles that have grout between them (leaves dirty fluid on grout). Because of this it is useless on these floors. You have to wash by hand anyway to clean the grout.
A time saver for some chores, but certainly will not eliminate all your work.
-dan z-
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Scooba Woes
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| Review Date: March 10, 2009 |
| Reviewer: hcomet, |
I purchased my Scooba from iRobot in November of 2007 and it worked great for 7 months, then stopped working with a check tank light. Tech support people at iRobot for the most part have been nice and seemed interested in helping solve the problem issues. They run through several issues and when exhausting all avenues decide that my scooba needs to be replaced.
Since then however, I have had several replacements. Some of which would work once until it was time to empty the water tank and then the inevitable check tank light comes on after playing its little song and dance. Others did not work at all saying check tank, and some worked but wouldn't put any water down. Oh, and one would put water down, but would not pick it back up. Upon going through several tech supports and all of the trouble shooting, they would then send another unit. I was told that these replacements were new units, two of which were obviously used and they didn't bother to hide that fact with the scratches and broken filter. Someone in their own sales dept. told us they wouldn't send a new unit, that it would be a comparable unit. Does this mean that since my original unit no longer worked, they would only send us used broken ones to replace it?
Now, since I have had more replacements than anyone else (research scooba reviews and you will find many similar cases), they had one of mine sent back to them at their office in Lancaster. I received a call from a girl with a small voice but a very big attitude that we apparently didn't know how to prime the unit, because they had it working just fine. Funny how my first one worked for 7 months with little ole me priming it all by myself and since then did manage to prime others and actually had them working until the tank needed to be emptied. The tech support people had us do the priming each and every time and yes water sprayed out of both sides, yet the unit would not run. But, we must be the reason these units aren't working, so they will return the last unit back to us and that's the end of it. They will do nothing else to help solve this issue. Seems to me that when I spend more than $400 for a floor washing machine, I shouldn't have to work so hard to get IT to work.
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Scooba 5900 & 380 are terrible
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| Review Date: September 18, 2008 |
| Reviewer: S. A. Smith, USA |
| I bought a Scooba 5900 in the fall of 2006. Within about 90 days, it malfunctioned & had to be replaced under the warranty. I boxed it up & paid to send it back to irobot. I received an in-warranty exchange of another Scooba 5900. It also stopped working within the warranty period. This time irobot sent me the Scooba 380 (May, 2007) In May 2008, I started having problems again with it not working. I called customer service & was told by the technician to replace the charger (due to the 4 beeps emitted from the unit). It took 2 months & 16 days to receive the trio pak ($119+). The scooba worked for about 15 minutes & then died. No lights, no sounds - nothing. Customer service solution is that I can pay $178 for a Scooba 5800 or $384+ for a Scooba 6060. THIS PRODUCT IS UNRELIABLE & A RIPOFF. BUYER BEWARE!! |
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