iRobot Scooba - robot vacuum cleaner for wet cleaning

[ludmila_27.79]

ludmila_27.79, in the 3xx series there is a quick-detachable battery, in the 450 it is also removable, but not so quickly and I do not know the intricacies, only yesterday they brought me 450 for repair, I will soon know all the details.

And where can you read about Braava 380T on our forum and chat with their owners?

[ksyusha1997]

ksyusha1997, I'd love to read the reviews of the Braava 380T too. Because after reading about scuba, it doesn't suit me. The new 450 model can wash 2 rooms of 20 m or one 40 sq. m and needs to be charged again. I have an apartment of 100 sq. m, how should I wash it in one go? In addition, the floors are laminate and I'm afraid that scuba is not suitable for everyday washing, it will ruin them with excessive moisture. But after reading about the Braava 380T on the official Irobot website, it seems to be more suitable for me. Working time on a single charge 3-4 hours. Cleaning slightly damp rather than wet, suitable for laminate flooring even for daily cleaning. It's just not clear how long he washes a room of 30 m or a room of 10 m?

Added Monday 01 Aug 2016 01:37 PM

Here I found a video review of brava: 🔗

Added Monday, 01 Aug 2016 1:41 PM

and here is a discussion of this video review: 🔗

[ludmila_27.79]

ludmila_27.79,
The cleaning time is always very different, in Braave there are two modes, one dry for quick dust collection and the second wet mode where the robot repeats the usual motions with a mop back and forth and slightly left and right. Users do not bother much when they write the cleaning time and in what mode, so the numbers are different, for some it washes 20 meters in 30 minutes, and for me it washes 7 meters for 20-25 minutes, it all depends on the configuration and complexity of the room, on what The robot works in this mode, so it is worth renting to try it in your apartment.
It should be borne in mind that this is a robot with wet cleaning, it must be looked after at least minimally, it does not start on schedule, does not park at the base, it can get stuck somewhere and wet the surface strongly, the cleaning time also strongly depends on the load on the robot, in brochures usually write the maximum values, and wet cleaning is usually 2.5 hours and the charge ends on a fresh battery.

[Medtech]

Medtech, thanks for the answer, dry cleaning does not interest me at all in Braave, only wet. There is Rumba. Tell me, does it leave streaks on the laminate? And whether he can cope with the footprints from naked feet, these footprints infuriate most of all, my son and husband do not accept slippers ... I go with a mop a hundred times.

Probably a year and a half ago they bought Minta 4200 with a lithium battery from me, the future owner first took it for a test, probably tried it for a week, then bought it, she was very worried about this question about footprints, arranged it, even without a water container and sent her friend for sure the same about 3 months ago.
But I see traces of a napkin on the tiles, if you take the platform in your hands and wipe it yourself, then nothing seems to be visible, but you can see behind the robot, although it is only visible to me, the wife does not notice.
But some people use a wet wipe for dry cleaning, it turns out much faster, but the robot just rolls back and forth one time passing through one place. I do not like it this way.
Today the Scuba 450 rolled around the kitchen, looking at the same time for a combination of buttons to continue cleaning without recharging, tried everything published - it didn't work. In my opinion, it washes even better than the 3xx series, without streaks at all, apparently I need to buy myself so that I liked it.

[Medtech]

Medtech, so does the scuba 450 charge without the robot itself? And which robot is still better at washing a scuba or a braava? Do you wash your laminate flooring? It seems to me that the scuba wets the floor a lot and cannot be used every day for laminate flooring.Another question is that the braava is controlled using a navigation cube, I have false ceilings of a complex configuration, will this be a problem for navigation?

I once thought about buying a Scuba, but also laminate in almost the entire apartment, only tiles in the hallway and kitchen. Now I'm interested in the Braava 380T. Is the Minta 4200 a modified Braava model?

[Albina]

so does the scuba 450 charge without the robot itself? And which robot is still better at washing a scuba or a braava?

The battery is in the robot, the robot is connected with a wire to the charger, can you remove the battery from the robot, where will you charge the battery separately?
Scuba uses a lot of water, many users wash the laminate and say that everything is in order, but no one indicates what kind of laminate, how the laminate was assembled, how often they wash, whether there are any consequences.
Look for a rental in your city, take it from friends, relatives, ask to visit them, look, Avito is full of robots that did not suit their owners due to high expectations or unexpected features.
Quality, better, worse, the assessment is very subjective depending on the apartment / conditions and the appraiser.
AlbinaThe Braava produced by iRobot is a modified version of the Mint 5200 produced by Evolution Robotics, which was bought / acquired by iRobot.

[Medtech]

Medtech, thank you for your responses. Unfortunately, I cannot find rental robots in Spain, and neither relatives nor friends have them. So you won't be able to try, you need to decide so. Or maybe 2 buy both braava and scuba for cleaning once a week. Yes, I just wanted to buy a bu on Avito or somewhere else.
Medtech, I also wanted to ask you if the battery from the scuba 450 fits to the rumba?
Will the Braava navigation cube work normally with such a ceiling?

[ludmila_27.79]

ludmila_27.79, for 450 and Rumba, the batteries are the same, Braave is still on such a ceiling, it is not film or shiny.

[Medtech]

Medtech, and yet I can't understand why the scuba 450 works on a full battery charge for only 45 minutes and that's it, because its 3000 mAh battery should last 3 hours? Or it means that he has run out of water and you can refill the water and start another 1 cycle for 45 minutes. on the same charge?

Added on Tuesday 02 Aug 2016 08:47 PM

there is an even newer Braava model after the 380T - the Braava Jet. Have you heard anything about this?

Medtech, Braava 390T - the same 380T, only white?

[ludmila_27.79]

ludmila_27.79, not always, my copy does not lend itself to re-launching, some lend themselves to using different passes with buttons, but you know better how much the robot should work, you wondered how easy it was to determine how much the robot consumes from the battery and how much it should work.
Users manage to remove it twice as much as possible if the battery is new, but guaranteed as in the instructions.
The jet sprays water in front of him and rubs, it is worth considering that he has disposable wipes, inserted like a cartridge, thrown away after use and grabs it for a smaller area.
Maryka, white, black, inside they are the same, but they probably added something from the package, put an extra napkin or removed it, reduced the new power supply and charging time by half an hour, marketing works.

but you know better how much the robot should work, you wondered how easy it was to determine how much the robot consumes from the battery and how much it should work

I thought so by analogy with the rumba. In general, I figured that I should scrub the entire apartment of 100 sq. m, then you need 4 batteries and 3 hours of time. In principle, I have a rumba with 2 batteries and then before the scuba I will need to buy 1 more spare. Or I think to buy a scuba 390, it works longer on 1 charge. With a scuba, it is at least roughly clear how long it will take to wash the floor, but how much it wets the floor is impossible to understand without trying it. But braava, I don't understand how long it will take to do wet cleaning. The irobot website says that the charge is enough for 93 sq. m for dry cleaning (4 hours) and 35 sq. m when wet (write 30% less than when dry - 2.5 hours). That is, with wet cleaning, the Braava will only wash 35 m in 2.5 hours?
I count everything so as not to be mistaken and to choose the right washing robot for myself.

inside they are the same

Thank you, it seems the package is the same

[ludmila_27.79]

ludmila_27.79, do not lie, it just turns out that I have 7m² washes for 30 minutes.
And for a scuba, such direct calculations are not very accurate, this is a random, chaotic robot, like a 3xx series or 4xx. 3xx series only used, already discontinued. you should count by rooms, but again, rooms larger than 25m should be divided by two, otherwise there will be gaps, 25 meters is a limit for randomness, or the cleaning time will need to be greatly increased. You can run Braavu in dry mode with a damp cloth, but it will be enough for 70-80 meters and still depends on the configuration of the apartment, coatings and many nuances. Consecutive room cleaning, or 2-3 braavas

Braava turns out to be very slow. And in dry cleaning mode with a damp cloth, will it wash normally? I counted from room to room: hall - 28 sq. m, kitchen -6, corridor - 10, bedroom - 15, bedroom - 9, bedroom - 7, bathroom - 3, bathroom - 4.5. There is not so much furniture, for example, in the hall: a table (I raise the chairs to the table when cleaning), a sofa corner, a TV stand, a treadmill and a fireplace. Laminate flooring, no carpets, tiles only in the kitchen and bathrooms. Rumba only cleans the hall for a long time, and the bedrooms quickly, because they are small and there is very little furniture. It turns out that in the hall you need to run the scuba 2 times, as if it were 2 rooms of 14 m? And it seems like you can stop the scuba earlier by pressing pause and forcibly turning on the drying before that time than he does it himself. Or is it only possible to do this with three hundredth models?

But Braava is quiet, I prefer to follow the manufacturer's recommendations and do not run Mint on dry cleaning with a damp cloth.
Scuba 450 can be sent for drying earlier in the same way as the 3xx series, but I don't know whether it will think that it needs to be charged after two quick washes and start.
After two short ones, it did not start for me, it is possible that the old firmware, on new ones, is launched by people if the robot is reset by a long press on I and the choice of cleaning.

And if you put Braava on dry cleaning with a damp cloth, then it will not be possible to attach a container with water?

The platform is the same as for dry and for wet, just another button is pressed, but it is worth considering that the time of working with a wet wipe on dry cleaning will be less, a wet wipe is more resistant to movement than a dry one, by how much - I don't know, I have the robot works 3 times in one area, first with a detergent, then with water, the last time with a dry wrung out napkin, a platform with water does not stand on Mint 4200, there is only one braava in stock, but it does not have a native platform.

[Medtech]

Medtech, thank you for your responses. I think I want both braava and scuba at once. Braavoy can wipe the laminate every day, and scuba can do the cleaning once a week. And where the tiles are: in the kitchen, in the bathrooms, on the terrace, you can also scuba, at least wash every day.

[ludmila_27.79]

ludmila_27.79You should buy one first, for example Braavu, try it comprehensively and if it is not enough or you will already build wet cleaning into the schedule and understand that it is not enough to take another.

[ludmila_27.79]

ludmila_27.79, I have a scuba 385
I am very pleased, although there were some worries about the laminate
the rooms are about the same and I run it (with not a new battery, 1.5 cycles before discharge):
- one cycle per hall
- per bedroom (20m) one cycle
- one cycle per bath and corridor together
- for both children one cycle
I often run the hall in the morning, the bedroom in the evening, the next day for children and a bath with a corridor

In one review I read about Braavu that the cube does not work well with stretch ceilings.

[Nastenka]

Nastenka, do you scuba wash your laminate floor every day?

[ludmila_27.79]

ludmila_27.79, almost everyone

Tell me how to buy Ayrobot in America. I wanted to order the robot Braava on Amazon.com, writes that there is no delivery to Spain. And on which website can you order for delivery? In Spain, the price of Braava was turned down as much as 390 euros!

Hello! Tell me what to do if the irobot scooba 390 drives as usual, but does not spray water? just drives on a dry floor ... (((