Is the irobot powerful to get a good clean?
1004719
I bought this for my son for his apt for Christmas. I have seen it in action and it does a very good job of sweeping his carpet and especially picking up his cat's hair. I would highly recommend.
1004720
Yes! Just be sure to clean the brushes regularly (I recommend at least once a week if you use it every day - especially if someone in the house has long hair). ^_^
1004721
If you keep the brushes very clean and use it regularly, it does an excellent job. Especially on pet hair.
1004722
The product is great on hard floors and good on carpet. It has problems with rugs on carpet.
1004723
good if you have even floor surface...all wood, tile or carpet...not good at transitioning between surfaces. I returned mine for this reason.
1004724
Yes, the irobot is powerfull where if you have more dirt in one place it will keep on cleaning it until its done. I leave it go away and it does its job very well. You will need to clean the brushes and remove the dirt etc of course after each cleaning just like any other vacuem cleaner...
1004725
It does great on hardwood floors. I do not have much experience with this roomba on carpet.
1860780
I normally vac first and then use the wash function to clean the floor. It will also pick up dirt when it's in the wash mode but it will create a mess in the reserve tank and clog the filter. It does a decent job on my tile floors.
2259580
I bought the Easy Clean 71B (Yellow) and am very happy with it. It is over 1 pound lighter than this Rapid Clean model with only slightly less power. Overall I have been very impressed with the suction power, the ability to turn on/off brushes and the long cord and crevice tool. I would recommend it due to the lower weight and lower price.
769168
It does a pretty good job on pet hair. We have 3 cats and a dog inside. The dog's hair tends to be coarse and the vac doesn't pick it up quite as well as I'd like, but then neither does my expensive Oreck. The Hoover does do a good job on the dust-bunny type little poofs of cat hair (but performs very poorly on cat litter). That said, l still give this vac an overall very good rating.
50642
If you run it regularly, the Scoobs does a fair job of "sweeping." But, cleaning it becomes messier as the amount of dirt it picks up increases. I run my Roomba vacuum before running the Scooba.
1373048
It works fine, but to do the job properly, we use a Swiffer. The vacuum will clean up just fine, but to remove dirt, etc., the Swiffer is designed to do that better.
650744
I have both the Scooba and the Hoover Floormate. I got the Floormate about 4 years ago. It definitely beats mopping by hand. But it still takes a lot of time, and unless you do it very slowly, doesn't pick up everything (dirt, water). If your floor is VERY dirty, as mine always was, you can spend a lot of time for a mediocre result. With the Scooba, however, there's a HUGE difference. Since the Scooba does everything for me, I clean my floors MUCH more frenquently. So they're cleaner to begin with, but the Scooba also does a better job scrubbing. This is because, at least on my floor, some of the solution gets left behind until the Scooba comes around for the next pass, so the dirt gets "soaked" and comes up more readily. With the Floormate, you can't really soak the floor unless you put down solution with the machine off, then wait, and then vacuum it up. If I had to choose, I would ABSOLUTELY go with the Scooba. I even thought about getting rid of the Floormate now that I have the Scooba, but I'll keep it around for big spills and such. Hope this helps!
2258168
We love the Neato - It does a great job on carpet, although it does not have bristles, and an acceptable job on tile floors also. The carpet looks much better being swept with the Neato, and I would heartily recommend it.
1195790
This cleaner is very powerful for a lightweight unit. I feel it did an excellent job of removing dirt from deep down in my carpet. I don't have pets but feel it would pick up whatever is in the carpet. Good luck!
511529
Yes it does clean well. It's a great vacuum .. Takes a few times to get use to moving it on the carpet since it's not a standard vacuum. But don't let that keep you from buying it. So pleased with this purchase
155824
ABSOLUTELY NOT! An excellent machine! One tip (for any type of sweeper) if you want to pick up pet hair from any carpet. Mist your carpet with water VERY lightly. Your sweeper will pick up hair 3 times faster and more thoroughly.
459567
NO, if your question is cleaning "stains" on carpets and so on, it does not have a BRUSH, so it wouldn't do the trick, but it can suck up water if you need it to
1093140
I think that the scooba does a decent enough job of getting crumbs if there aren't a lot, but the filter for the scooba is so much smaller than the dust particle bins of the roomba. If the floor is pretty dirty, which mine often is with two kids an a dog, I run the roomba and then the scooba, and it comes a lot cleaner than if I did it with a mop and bucket.
1432248
I love my Braava. I have the dry and wet one. I can't tell you how much dust it picks up off the floor. For washing the floor it does the job but I do give it a good mopping with soap every couple of weeks. Just remember to put the remote on.
146146
I use it on all my hard floors, and it has really good suction and picks up pretty much everything. I usually clean the filters after using it, which helps also and you can see how much dirt and dust it really picked up.
403053
I would imagine that it would but how well it does it, is the question. I would recommend buying it from a place you can return it (such as iRobot Directly) in case that it does not perform to your satisfaction. I would call iRobot directly and ask them. They have been pretty honest with me in answering all my questions over the years.
511553
No, you can't "clean" carpets, as it's got no way to extract dirty water. However, with the glide attachment included, you can steam "refresh" carpets, and supposedly kill dust mites, etc. The unit glides above the carpet and injects the steam into the fibers, but you don't use the microfiber pad, so you're not picking anything up. Hope that helps!