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Gone are the days of mopping your floors!
 At first glance, the new Scooba looks much like the original Roombas. |
 The instructions were easy. Charge the battery, put in a measuring cups worth of the fluid, add warm water, let 'er loose! Because it is vacuuming, washing, scrubbing, and drying the floor all at once, it moves at about 1/2 the speed of a Roomba. |
 Other than the shape, it has little in common with the other Irobot products. |
 The storage tanks easily remove for filling/draining. |
 The Scooba is slightly larger than the Roomba. It doesn't come with a wall mount, nor does iRobot offer one for it yet. Since it is larger than the Roomba, you can't use its wall mount either. |
 Fozzy approves of the new addition. |
 Not only did the kitchen benefit from a thorough cleaning, the patio did too. |
 The battery for the Scooba is completely different than the ones used in the Roombas. |
| If you're familiar with Roomba products, you'll be
impressed by how differently this one is built. The Scooba seems more
more robust. It has a heavy duty hinge & latch, which appear to be
stainless steel. The design was carefully laid out. Unlike the
predecessors, no screws have to be removed to take the brushes off for
cleaning. Just push a button and they pop free. The Scooba uses a proprietary Clorox (non-bleach) cleaning solution. For now, the only place to buy it is from a iRobot dealer. I bought it in bulk, which should last me for months. It only takes a minute to load the solution and warm water. Set it in the middle of the floor, power it up, and push the clean button. Go away, come back to a clean floor. In theory, the floor is dry moments after it makes a pass. In actuality, it takes several minutes for the floor to dry completely. The Scooba sucks up most of the solution, but the floor remains damp after a pass. When the floor dries, there's no residue. The floors are clean and shiny. Very impressive. I've always hated mopping, and though this product was expensive, I think it's worth the money. |
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Last updated 02/15/06 All rights reserved. |
