Want.

[beth_leonard]

While looking at steam cleaners at Costco.com I saw this
product.

It's like the vacuum cleaner, only it sweeps and mops the kitchen floor.
Sooo tempting. Sooo frivolous. Could I justify it as a home maintainence expense because it costs less than one call to rodent control? (Luckily we have not had rodents in a long time, but now that Amber is eating cheerios I don't think our luck will hold out much longer.)

--Beth

Comments

[elflynn.livejournal.com]

I haven't actually seen the scooba in action, but I've heard lots of good things about them. I know the roomba works great! :)

[beth_leonard]

I never would have thought that the roomba would work, but you guys love yours, so I'm willing to give one a try. I can't justify a roomba because for us 3/4 of the work of vacuuming is picking up the toys/paperclips etc. before we vacuum. A scooba however, that would be awesome. Mopping and doing a good job seems to take me at least 2 hours after the prep work of sweeping is completed. The comments at Amazon made it seem like it works fairly well, it's just a little noisy.

--Beth

[zathrus.livejournal.com]

I use a Swiffer, which doesn't take nearly that long and produces decent results. It doesn't deal well with big messes or deeply-ingrained dirt, but it's easy enough to use quickly that I don't mind using it more often. And, it comes in a box, which means that its handle is made of several sections which attach together, which means you can easily shorten it to let a child mop the floor. (I haven't gotten the WetJet or anything like that; I just use the regular swiffer with moist pads.)

Even so, with about 1500 square feet of non-carpeted floor, the scooba does look tempting.

Newt

Swiffer

[beth_leonard]

We have one too. Jon doesn't like it because he claims it leaves a sticky residue on the floor. I think the problem is more that it just moves the existing stickiness around the floor to different places. Peter does like it because he can see all the dirt he's picked up. Either way I don't use it often enough, and filling a robot with water before bed sounds so much nicer and sounds like it might do a much better job.
--Beth

[uthrom.livejournal.com]

I have a friend of mine, who due to his frivolous nature owns both a Roomba and a Scooba.

My opinion, from watching them both in action, is that they don't do nearly a good enough job - and get stuck under things like the cabinets all too often, burn up the battery trying to un-stick, and now you have a dirty half-wet floor, instead of just a dirty floor.

The Roomba might work, but the Scooba seems to be a waste of money, IMHO.


- d.