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iRobot - Scooba 450 Floor-Scrubbing Robot - Black
Average customer rating
4
(123 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 123 reviews
5 Stars
76
4 Stars
15
3 Stars
7
2 Stars
9
1 Star
16
79%of customers recommend this product.
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Customer Reviews for iRobot - Scooba 450 Floor-Scrubbing Robot - Black
Customer Rating
5
Love it!!!
on April 23, 2014
Posted by: Eduardo
from Mexico City
When I decided to buy Scooba 450, crossed my fingers it was going to work. After using it for a couple of weeks. I love it!!!. Scooba does most of the work for me. After reading some reviews was careful to make scooba ready the rooms to be cleaned. Surprised how dirty the water comes out, after cleaning. I do love the product and would recommend it. There are some minor nuissances for me, one is the battery life, as it is enough to just clean one big room, it would be nice to be able to buy another battery to keep Scooba working, and finish all at once without the need to take it to the charging station. Also I think it needs to be smarter, as there are some parts where Scooba doesn't go, specially after bumping into a few obstacles and also I would like it to end the job in the same place it started to avoid looking for it, specially under furniture. Other than that is a great product, I use it on a daily basis a couple of times a day, never seen my hard floors so clean with so little effort
Pros: Charging station, Does Most Of The Work, Easy To Use, Small
Cons: Battery life, Need To Be Smarter, Needs To Be Smarter
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
3
Better than not mopping
on April 23, 2014
Posted by: Dizzel
from Memphis, TN
I typically use this in my kitchen and high traffic areas to clean and sanitize as we have a infant crawler who is all over the floor. Like most new products, some kinks have to be worked out. Where Scooba falls short is the final stages of squeegee cleanup. It just doesn't work on my floors, which are admittedly older hardwood that is not always level. It also seems to give too much of a buffer for virtual walls. I have to set them about 2 feet further out than what I expected because otherwise Scooba doesn't come anywhere close to the boundary. I feel like I have to babysit this thing. While Scooba works well, I'm just not convinced it was worth the purchase.
Pros: Cleans Great, Fast, No Manual Labor, Respects Carpet, Sanitizing, Set It And Walk Away
Cons: Huge Virtual Wall Buffer, Not Great On Uneven Floor, Sometimes Leaves Puddles
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Customer Rating
4
Absolutely worth the investment
on April 18, 2014
Posted by: Luiz
from Belo Horizonte,Brazil
Although Irobot still don't sell it in Brazil, I couldn't wait and bought one in US (no warranty I know). But anyway, this is a quite impressive machine. I have a large home. Most of it with marble and granite floor. I have been using daily and it never have been so clean. The housekeeping is starting to get worried about her job... it leaves some small drops of water sometimes, but who cares? It did 99,9 % of the dirty job for you! The only reason that I don´t give it five stars is that as the older roomba generations it gets some long hair between the brushes and wheels. But this is also easy to clean.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
1
Disappointed with Scooba 450
on April 5, 2014
Posted by: Miki
from Key Colony Beach, FL
Just purchased the Roomba 880, Scooba 450, & Braava 380t. Here is my take: The Scooba 450. It doesn't do well with dog hair and is a real mess to clean. The dog hair also seems to prevent it from suctioning the dirty water back up. Don't even bother to purchase this if you have pet hair. Forget using the large room feature on it. Since it does things in stages, by the time it gets to the suctioning of dirty water, the floor is already dry. If you set it to small room and do small areas at a time using the 20 minute scrub, it does seem to do a passable job. But who has time to do small areas at a time (and only holds a charge to do two small areas)? Very disappointed with the Scooba 450. Maybe a better idea for iRobot would be to have two machines - one dedicated to floor scrubbing a small area using actual scrubbing brushes instead of just the usual vacuum brush) and the other to just suction the dirty water after scrubbing? That should enable both machines to have an hour run time each - enough to do three small sections before having to recharge. The Roomba 880 is fantastic - a huge improvement over past models I used! It keeps a charge so much longer and is easier to empty. I did find the filter seems to get dirty very fast with all of the pet hair. Since they send a spare filter, I just clean the dirty one the best I can and even spray it with hot water and let dry. I just ordered another Roomba 880 so that I can have two going at the same time (big house). Love the return to dock feature. The Braava 380t is another great little machine! Make sure to order spare microfiber cloths. I just use mine with water and am amazed at the job it does. It also holds a charge for a long period of time. It does a nice job on my travertine floors and is fantastic on my wood floors. Don't get me wrong - this is not an intensive cleaning job, but if you use it frequently, you won't need to spend time manually cleaning floors very often. I just ordered two more Braava 380ts. Make sure to use the Roomba to get as much dirt and hair up before using the Braava - after all, one microfiber cloth can only hold so much dirt. Depending on your situation, you will probably need to order additional Virtual Walls.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Customer Rating
1
Polished porcelain
on March 12, 2014
Posted by: Batkoce
from Las Vegas, NV
Maybe the worst Valentine's gift to my wife, Very poor job picking the water from the polished porcelain floor, leaves drops and streaks everywhere, there was not single tile that was cleaned good. At the end it only has picked up less than half of the water that was used to fill it up. Spent a lot of time researching and there was not enough reviews out there, just those paid comercials everywhere. Felt emberaced, after I thought I was going to make my wife happy it did not work. Don't spend your $600.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Customer Rating
4
Good Job iRobot!
on March 3, 2014
Posted by: Farmer Ben
from Gervais, OR
What a wonderful product! Basically, this is a great robot. It works as advertised and cleans my floors freeing me up to take care of the rest of my house. The robot attacks stuck on messes well. iRobt definitely made a great upgrade in the brush assembly used by this robot. The longer bristles and higher RPMs clean much better than the Scoooba 350. What I have found in using this robot is that super dirty floors can be a bit of a problem for this robot. Here's what I mean, the robot cleans well but where there is a lot of lint or other thick debris on the floor performance suffers a bit, because of the removable filter in the tank. Wet non-dis-solvable messes get stuck on the filter. Once I figured out the filter was there I was able to clean it up and get things moving again. Now I just make it part of my regular cleaning when cleaning Scooba. In summation, I believe that what might be best is to use a Roomba to vacuum the floor first like the evening before Scooba is run. With a pre-vacuumed floor I would think that Scooba would have very little problem scrubbing the floor. It depends on how dirty your floors are. Overall, I'm very satisfied with my Scooba and would definitely recommend it to a friend.
Pros: Good, Hard Worker, Time saver
Cons: Very Dirty Floors
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Customer Rating
2
Doesn't Work Well for Large Spaces
on March 2, 2014
Posted by: Matt
from Bloomington, IL
The Scooba 450 was our first iRobot purchase. We picked it because of its ability to vacuum and scrub in the same cycle. While it does a good job of cleaning as advertised, it's not suited to cleaning large areas, and it's not particularly convenient if it can't clean the area you want it to clean in a single battery charge (which lasts about 45 minutes). The first floor of our house is about 1,300 square feet, and has an open floor plan with hardwood floors. The only way the Scooba would have worked for us is if we had sectioned off 3-4 areas of the floor with the virtual walls, and let it clean each one in succession. Since the battery only holds enough charge for one session on the larger room setting and two on the smaller room setting, we would have had to charge it in between sessions - and that would have eliminated the convenience factor we were hoping for when we bought it. It's not nearly as convenient as a Roomba, which has a longer battery life, charges on its own, and can clean on a preset schedule without supervision. We're exchanging ours for a Roomba 880, which seems to have the convenience factor we were looking for in the first place.
Pros: Cleans Effectively, Easy To Use
Cons: Battery charge too short, Must Be Supervised, Pet Hair Is A Problem, Short Battery Life
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Customer Rating
3
Curb your enthusiasm
on February 22, 2014
Posted by: JB
from Lewisville, TX
I have two dogs who are confined to the kitchen and backyard while I'm away. I bought the newest Scooba so that I could keep the kitchen floor somewhat clean between major scrubbings, which, from all the reviews I read, is the most that Scooba buyers should expect...it is NOT a scrubbing tool, it is a maintenance tool. My kitchen is just over 200 sq feet in size, but it is an odd shape with a bar area that projects at a 45 degree angle between the kitchen and dining area. Since the sq footage is well within what is recommended for the large room setting, I hoped using the Scooba would be a 'set it, walk away, come back to a clean kitchen' operation. Unfortunately, the Scooba does not seem to be able to navigate the bar area correctly and left huge puddles of water/solution. I had to go over the kitchen with a dry mop to pick up all the wet solution. NOT what I bought this for. So, I split the room up into a 132 sq ft area and a 70 sq ft area with the virtual wall and sent the Scooba on two small room missions. I will say that it did perform better in this configuration, however, it doesn't seem to be able to navigate the kitchen table legs very well. I say this because it seems to spend an inordinate amount of its cycle time going around those legs. The table is the only thing that I don't remove from the area, and I watched the Scooba go around those legs at least 6 times each, but only went over other areas twice. I'm going to try moving the table to a different area of the room...it is too large to move it completely out of the kitchen. I've only had it for a few days and have used it each day now. I'm going to keep trying different tactics, including pre-sweeping the area. So I'm less than ecstatic over this purchase...it is a passable replacement for damp mopping every day to keep some semblance of clean in the kitchen...but it is very expensive for just a passable replacement. If I'm not happier in two weeks, I'll probably return it. I had higher hopes...
Pros: Decent Maintenance Tool
Cons: Obstacle Avoidance, Odd Shaped Rooms
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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