Helpful Mom

Well once I had the iRobot Roomba I was in love.  And soon found out that they also make a mopping version!  It’s called the iRobot Scooba .  And I had to have it.  With two tiny kids that were always dropping food on the floor I was always feeling like I needed to mop twice daily (not that I did, just felt like it needed it)  So I saved up my pennies, Joel and I have built into our monthly budget our own spending money that we are able to spend on whatever we want whether it be for a fancy mopping robot or a computer game for him ;P  So when I found a remanufactured one on Amazon.com I jumped on it.  So while the girls were very little I would run it every day after they had gone to bed for the evening.

It works very much like the vacuuming one.  You fill the tank with water and cleaning solution and turn it on and let it go.  I usually sweep up beforehand due to the kids.  But it does wet, scrub, and squeegee the floors although it does not leave the floors totally dry.  Due to the round shape it does not get into corners and depending on the height of your counters it may not get all the way under the edge, so I take a wash cloth occasionally and wipe down the edges manually.  But for that small amount of inconvenience my floors are regularly mopped when before I was happy if they got cleaned once a week(or rather unhappy that that it was only once a week).  Once it’s finished cleaning you empty the dirty tank and rinse it out, rinse out the filters and brushes and plug it back in for the battery to recharge.  So far I’ve had it for two years and have never had to replace any parts at all.  This one takes about 45minutes to clean a room.

Before I had the Scooba I used theHoover FloorMate, which is sort of like a mopping vacuum.  I still use this for our tiny bathrooms and for those spills which are inevitable.  Such as that spilled soda, or the time my husband knocked over that breast milk I’d just pumped.  It will vacuum up the spill and then you can mop the space up and the floor will be clean not sticky.