This time of year is filled with gift giving. With Mother’s Day just past, Graduation Parties filling our calendars, and Father’s Day around the corner everyone is looking for creative, unique, and useful gift ideas.
iRobot Scooba 450 Floor Mopping Robot received.
One thing everyone loves to do is save time on chores. They need to be done but every minute saved can be used to spend that precious time doing things you actually enjoy. One of my most time consuming chores is mopping. That’s why I was excited about the iRobot Scooba 450 Floor Mopping Robot.
The Scooba 450 Floor Mopping Robot will automatically sweep, wash, scrub, and squeegee away dirt, grime, and bacteria. In fact it neutralizes 98% of common household bacteria. It was also recently redesigned to clean three time better than before.
As an additional accessory this drying stand is compact and convenient.
I was impressed to hear this and I was also interested to learn that iRobot was recently named one of Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies. With this knowledge I couldn’t wait to put the Scooba 450 Floor Mopping Robot to work.
With a 7-year-old, an 8-year-old, a 9 month old (very large) puppy, and a husband that likes to garden our floors pay their dues. I’ve always done what I can to keep them clean but never felt it was enough and admit that the amount I mopped didn’t happen often enough.
That’s why I was thrilled to discover how easy the Scooba 450 Floor Mopping Robot is to use and what a great job it does in keeping our floors clean.
Just fill the Scooba with the iRobot Hard Floor Cleaner and water and press the “Clean” button. You can also fill it with water only.
It starts with sweeping up dirt which I think is brilliant. It was designed so you don’t need to sweep before using it.
Then it pre-soaks the floor with iRobot Hard Floor Cleaner to soak into anything that might be stuck on. You can see this step in this video:
Next the Scooba 450 makes another pass to scrub and squeegee. The powerful scrubbing brush rotates at 600 rpm to remove dirt and grime. At the same time the squeegee sucks up the dirty water. It ends with another squeegee cycle to leave only a clean floor.
You can see the follow up video to the one above here where it’s about half-way through it’s cycle:
One of the other great features is that the Scooba never puts dirty water back down on your floors – unlike a mop.
The Scooba fits everyone’s needs in that it offers two different cleaning options:
- A full 40 minute cleaning cycle – which cleans 300 square feet. This cycle cleans my dining room, kitchen, hallway, and part of one bedroom
- A smaller 20 minute cleaning cycle – which cleans 150 square feet. This cycle cleans my dining room well.
It does a great job of cleaning every area of the floor and it makes multiple passes to make sure it washes every section of your floor. I’m happy to say it never seems to miss a spot. This is due to the iAdapt Responsive Navigation Technology.
It is wonderful at getting around furniture and hugging close to walls using Wall Following technology. It also uses the iAdapt technology to avoid area rugs, carpets, stairs, and other dropoffs.
I like that it has a LED Status Ring that lights up to tell you how far along it is in the cycle.
The robot works on a variety of floors including:
- Tile
- Linoleum
- Sealed Hardwood
- Vinyl
- Marble
- Stone
- Slate
It also comes with a virtual wall which uses an infrared beam that you can place anywhere you don’t want it to go.
The Scooba 450 Floor Mopping Robot has been a real time saver for us and I recommend it to anyone looking to give a creative, hard-working, and thoughtful gift for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, or for Graduation. With it’s many features and ability to clean so you don’t have to it’s a must have for every busy household or office.
This would be perfect for our hardwood floors! Would absolutely love one of these!
What an incredible invention! My mother will be seventy years old in a few months and it’s getting harder for her to do household chores daily due to bad knees and arthritis. A gadget that will sweep, pre-soak, and clean her floors so she doesn’t have too would be perfect for her. Thanks for the introduction :)
I have heard about the irobot vacuums but I didn*t know they made units that mopped your floors, Love to use this on my kitchen floor.
I love that a Roomba can scrub my floors!
Pretty neat.
Love this product. I would love to have someone other than me clean a floor!
I have seen the irobot vacuums but I didn’t know they made units that mopped your floors. I’d love to try this on my kitchen floor.
They really need some kind of a test program for these. Its something I’d love to try out but I haven’t been able to justify buying at the price point… I think if they had a try before you buy and it really does an amazing job I may reconsider! ;)
I have seen the irobot vacuums but I didn’t know they made units that mopped your floors. I am so jealous of you that you have this system! I would love to have this so I could keep up with my floors. What a great gadget!
I think this looks great. I would love to have one of these for my house.
I had an iRobot vacuum for a while and loved it. I can see how the Scooba would be great for washing the floors, but it hadn’t occurred to me that I need one. Now, though, after reading your review, I think I’ve changed my mind!
I have a Roomba – I have to say I LOVE the mopping feature!! Mine does not have that.. I need to look into upgrading!
As if thoroughly cleaning floors wasn’t enough, it also neutralizes 98% of common household bacteria. That’s awesome! I also love that it can be used on a variety of floors.
I’d love this but am afraid it would scare my cat LOL
Oh, I could use one. Does it do windows too?
I didn’t know they made one that mops! This is so cool! I am definitely getting one of these babies for my mom.She would love it!
This is pretty cool. I would love to have one.
I would like to get one to save time on cleaning
This sounds so useful! Definitely would save me time and effort in cleaning.
Like how it works on a variety of floors, and I love that it has two different cleaning cycles. This would be awesome for my floors since we have two dogs.
I would love to give this a try on my hardwoods! My dog would love to watch it go around, LOL!
Oh my gosh! This is so neat! Love that you can mop with it too!
Ya know, I think I could actually fall in love with that robot! I am so impressed with your review and video that it makes me sure wish I could afford one. It’s awesome!
I’ve always wanted one of these! These look amazing!
So loved reading this. I didn’t know you could mop with it too. It would make cleaning so much easier! :-)
This really sounds like an amazing product that I would love to have clean my floors. The Irobot is amazing and really has the technology to clean the floor without anybody doing it. I would love to have one.