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Feb 23, 2006 9:59 pm US/Eastern
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Does The Scooba Really Lessen Our Workload?
by Yvonne Zanos
(KDKA)
New products are on the right track as they are coming up with all kinds of ways to do our work for us.
The Scooba promises just that. But does it really do that?
Ariana Welling is a busy mom. She has six kids from 15-month-old Baylee to 11-year-old Sasha.
Scooba, the floor washing robot, promises to prep, wash, scrub and dry your floor.
"I'd love it," Welling said. 'It would run all day and I'd come home to a clean house."
Welling knew right away the Scooba wasn't a product to use during the day.
"I did it when everybody was in bed," Welling said.
Welling says there is no question the Scooba gets up dirt, but smears the dirt in tougher jobs. You can see it does a decent job. Getting it to finish the job is the problem.
"I found it pushed a lot of the dirt which it is supposed to pick up into the corners and where all the walls and the floors meet," Welling said. "It's that 90degree angle filled with dirt. So when it was done, I had to go through and get all that myself."
When Welling tested it, it ran out of cleaning fluid twice.
"It beeped letting me know it was out of the cleaner so I put more in and it went about its business," Welling said. "It ran out two times.
"It actually created more work because once it was done, I had to clean all the parts off, dry it all out, put it all back," Welling added. "By the time it was all said and done, the cleaning and everything I could have scrubbed the floor my own way."
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