Scooba Blog

We added the Scooba and the Roomba to our wedding registry, and received the Scooba as an early Christmas gift. I could just say the Scooba works great, but that wouldn’t be really helpful.
Initially straight out the box, the Scooba would not lay down any water. I went through some simple troubleshooting steps (without calling […]

I just bought my first Scooba 1 1/2 months ago. I think it was not working quite right out of the box. Sometimes it would not lay any water down. I called customer service and they suggested putting the Scooba on its side an “firmly” hitting it on the floor. I did and it still […]

Thanks to Lynn for writing in - She writes:
I have been using my Scooba for a couple weeks now, and I love it. I
have two kids, a cat, a dog, and a muddy backyard. I just couldn’t
keep up and was living with pretty gross floors. I did need to run it
twice the […]

I got a new Scooba and it doesn’t work. On the first use, the “Check Tank” light repeatedly came on 3-4 seconds after pressing “Clean.” After I followed all of the instructions in the manual, I found a few more suggestions on the web site. Incredibly, they suggested using “a turkey baster […]

I sadly returned my Scooba today to The Sharper Image. (By the way, they were really nice and no-questions-asked about the return).
I love robots and I love Scooba theoretically, but my expectations were too high. For $325 with tax, I really wanted it to clean well.
And it was only so-so. It got our dining room […]

Thanks to Adam who wrote in with a review:

I sadly returned my Scooba today to The Sharper Image. (By the way, they were really nice and no-questions-asked about the return).
I love robots and I love Scooba theoretically, but my expectations were too high. For $325 with tax, I really wanted it to clean well.
And it […]

Hi Folks.
Got another review for you, this time from KDKA, a CBS affiliate in Pittsburgh. Here is a link to the review.
Some snippets:
…there is no question the Scooba gets up dirt, but smears the dirt in tougher jobs. You can see it does a decent job. Getting it to finish the job is the […]

CNN Money is featuring a review of the Scooba. Read it here
Some Excerpts:
I tested the Scooba on my kitchen floor the day after it had been mopped by a professional housekeeper…the silicon-based robot picked up more dirt and left the floor much cleaner than the carbon-based humanoid did.

On the downside, at nearly 15 inches […]

A local ABC News affiliate has a review of the Scooba, available here
Here’s a snippet:

Both our testers also say the Scooba will miss certain spots.
Lisa Tabb, Fairfax: “It just doesn’t seem to get around certain corners that the manual mop could.”

The final verdict was split. One tester claimed that the Scooba “cleans better than […]

I thought I would post my impressions of the scooba after having run it now for about a month. It’s definitely worth the money and does a fanatastic job. However, I have run into a few problems.
1. The darn front wheel collects hair. The girls in my family shed hair like alf. This hair loves […]