User Review - pehrspace
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 and kitchen floors pretty clean, but left a border of dust and dirt behind along the edges of the floor next to the walls. The Clorox solution also smells way too strong. If you’re not sensitive to smells, it probably won’t bother you. But I was annoyed.
We also tried it in a small, closed off area of our gallery space, which had more industrial-sized stains on a concrete floor (spilled drinks, scuff marks, dirt footprints). The Scooba really didn’t make any difference at all. I was wondering if the stains were just permanent, but then I whipped out the old Swiffer Wet, and it dissolved most of the stains with a little elbow grease. It was not as cool as Scooba, and I had to spend my own time cleaning instead of the robot’s time; but with the Swiffer it actually got clean.
So now I’m sad that it didn’t work out, and I’m going to keep my eyes peeled for the second generation scooba to give it another shot.
