In a room with rugs and areas of hard wood, is the Scooba smart enough to know to only clean the hardwood?
2029946
The carpet would have to be higher than the hardwood floor so that the Scooba would "bump" into it. I use the artificial wall to block the area or close the bedroom doors.
2029947
It depends. There must be some elevation of the carpet for Scooba to bump into and change direction. Fringe on a rug tends to confuse it. Scooba comes with a light beam gadget that will prevent Scooba from going into an area you choose.
2029948
No, you would have to remove the rugs or use barriers around them. Also, your hardwood floors should be sealed if you want to use Scooba on them.
541022
I don't have hard wood floors but it is great on every other kind of floor. It has a softer bristle and it catches the dirt.
1045384
No, the design is meant to agitate carpet fibers to clean efficiently. It is not designed for hardwood floors.
545965
I don't know for sure about Scooba. I don't have one. But I have a Roomba. It is very very good at detecting stairs. I have stairs that it goes past all the time, very close to its docking station and it has never fallen down them. I also took it out one time and had it clean my front porch. Stairs,plus all the edges have no rails. It didn't fall. It also cleaned my sofas and didn't fall off. I'm not saying it will never happen, but the sensors look like they do a good job. As for cats, I have 2 of them. They don't particularly like the Roomba, but they don't hate it, either. One of them kind of ignores it, and one of them watches it closely and jumps out of its way when it comes close. I have heard that the Scooba is quieter than the Roomba. I don't see a problem
600171
Using the low reach tool (brush out), you'll be able to work the hardwood floors if they cover large areas of the room. If you only have short intervals of hardwood between rugs, then using the upright and turning off the brushroll when going from carpet to floor should do.
1603111
I only have two small areas of hardwoods and don't use the vacuum cleaner to clean them. I do like the vacuum cleaner though - I'm quite happy with my purchase.
1761799
Hardwood floors is all I have, it does a wonderfull job. We are very happy with this purchase and would recommend it.
424448
Well of course u need the brush..how do u think the machine works..the brush rotates to pick up hair ,dust & dirt and throws it up into the dirt bin! Very simple answer..still LOVE my robot..I too only.have wood floors!
483499
Very good on Hardwood floor. Acceptable on all short nap rugs, must make many passes to clean off dog hair.
2168014
Unfortunately I don't have hardwood floors. I have tile floors and it picks up everything, hair, dust, and the smallest speck the eye can see. I just love it!
692155
On hardwood floors its fine. On carpets no. If you have trouble you can take the safety bottom pieces. There are about 6 of them and they are not hard to remove ,you just need a screwdriver. But i wouldnt do this unless its really hard to navigate such as in carpets.
34219
Yes. I have mostly hardwood in my home and it's great. But, as I mentioned in my review, I don't like the new shag style floor pads as well as the old quilt textured pads. The new ones leave marks on my floor so I immediatly wipe the floors down with a towel. It takes a little bit more time but it's pretty easy since the Shark doesn't leave a lot of water on the floors anyway.
1238596
I have had my Scooba for about 5 days now. Have ran it 3 times. Love it! My home is about 5000 square feet and the first level is almost all laminate, so roughly 2000 square feet. I find that it really does get about 95 percent of the floor cleaned and I have ALOT of angles and things for it to bounce off of. If you run it every day or every other day, it will eventually get all spots. I do go through 2 tanks before the battery dies though. I love the fact that Scooba is cleaning while I work. If you have bar stools, there is another way. With my Roomba, I use my 9 bar stools as a virtual wall. Space them just far enough apart so that the Scooba cannot fit through and it will stay in the section you want it to be in. I say buy it, you will not be disappointed. Just make sure you get the 5900 model as it has twice the battery life of the 5800.
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.
1136553
Yes, it is safe for hardwood. Just make sure you don't keep the mop in one place for too long and it won't damage the wood.
1111776
I'm test driving a roomba now and like it, but after reading all the comments (and yours about the hardwoods) I'm worried. The trilobite is SO expensive!
1845373
I would not worry about the floors. Of course it depends on how plush the rug is.