Amazon.com: Customer reviews: iRobot Braava Jet 240 Superior Robot Mop - App Enabled, Precision Jet Spray, Vibrating Cleaning Head, Wet and Damp Mopping, Dry Sweeping Modes

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2018

I was not expecting to like this mopping tool before I ordered it and when I opened the box I was sure it was going to be returned based purely on it's appearance. The thing is only 7"x7" and it looks too tiny to really do anything. I was however quite surprised on how well it works. We have 3 different types of flooring throughout our house consisting of vinyl sheet flooring, engineered hardwood and carpet. The kitchen (11"x16"), breakfast nook (11'x11') and all of the 2-1/2 bathrooms are vinyl. The entrance foyer (8'x18') is engineered hardwood.

Before using the Braava in either of it's wet modes, it is recommended that you thoroughly vacuum or sweep the floor because the Braava is only made to mop floors, not to vacuum or sweep them. If you don't vacuum or sweep first, you will wind up pushing small debris around the room and creating a mess.

The first test was to tackle the breakfast nook. I used the invisible wall mood to prevent Braava from going into the kitchen which adjourns the breakfast nook. Rather than having the Braava maneuver around the table and chair legs, I flipped the chairs over and put them on top of the table and pushed the table to the far end of the room. As the Braava did it's zig-zag pattern in the room, I re-positioned the table a few times to keep the table legs out of the path of the Braava. The breakfast nook is a perfectly square room and the Braava completed the task perfectly. The last thing it did was to go around the perimeter 0f the room to get all the edges. Our carpeted family room adjourns the breakfast nook on one side and the Braava did not go past the edging of the carpet. Job done perfectly!!

The next task (after recharging) was the kitchen. Again, I set up the invisible wall to prevent Braava from going back into the breakfast nook. I was amazed as the Braava began it's job. It began going the length of the kitchen and when it got about 12' into the room it made a u-turn and came back to where it started. It continued the zig-zag overlapping pattern until it completed the first 12' of the room. It then traveled beyond the first 12' and began a zig-zag pattern in the opposite direction until it completed the entire floor. It then spent considerable time going in different directions until it eventually covered all of the edges of the kitchen. It was actually interesting to watch. When it was finished, I gave a close inspection and found that it had cleaned the floor as good or better that if I had done it by hand with a mop. I had intentionally let the floor get dirtier than I normally would knowing I was going to be testing the Braava and it passed the test with flying colors.

As to exactly how it works, I think that the iRobot engineers put a lot of thought into the design of the tool. It uses warm water only and the cleaning agent is in the pad itself so I don't think there will be a clogging problem with the jet in the future because of residual cleaners. It uses so little water, I will probable use distilled water in the future to help prevent jet clogging down the road. The pad itself vibrates to help the cleaning action, similar to the action of a hand-held sander. With the wet mop pad on it, the Braava moves in a Y pattern much like you would do using a sponge mop or swiffer. When you put the damp mop pad on it, the Braava only goes forward and back and squirts less water on the floor. This is what I used in the foyer on the engineered wood flooring because I do not want too much water on the wood floor. The third choice of pad is the dusting pad that uses no water and causes the Braava to got in a continuous forward zig-zag motion. The Braava senses which pad you are using and operates accordingly.

One of the things that surprised me was the size of the battery. When I unboxed the Braava and saw the battery, I thought that it was going to be the weak point of the tool. The instructions state that it must be charged for two hours before using and it probably took pretty close to that on the first charge. When it finished the first 11'x11' room, I put the battery back in the charger and it only took about 15 or 20 minutes for it to get back to full charge.

The only caveat I would add to this review is that it works extremely well on smooth floors without high and low spots. I would imagine it will not do as well on heavily textured tile or stone floors especially if they have deep grout lines. I have seen other reviewers say this and I can fully understand why.

My wife and I are both in our eighties and the Braava is definitely going to make our lives a lot easier.

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PT Cruiser

Bot Cousteau is a hard working little mopper

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2017

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About a week after purchasing E-Sweepio, our iRobot Roomba 650 vacuum, and talking with a friend who owned one of these, I took the plunge and welcomed Bot Cousteau (the iRobot Braava Jet 240) into our home. Our whole downstairs is porcelain tile and hard surface flooring so there's a lot to mop. And moping the floor is one of my least favorite jobs. The best way to clean a dirty kitchen floor is on hands and knees with a trusty old rag and some sort of cleaning spray. Bot Cousteau can't equal that, but he does a darn good job on normal spots and stains. The water that you dripped from the hummingbird feeder and then walked over with shoes for the last two days? It probably won't get all of that. And the half of a sweet potato fry that was dropped unnoticed, stepped on and then dried on overnight? Probably won't get all of that off either. But it will mop up the drips of coffee or spatters from the stove and ordinary dirt that mysteriously appears from walking on the floors. In fact, it gets at least 97% of the dirt.

Bot Cousteau moves in a fairly organized pattern compared to the Roomba vacuum. You set it at the lower left hand side of the area you want to mop and it moves to the right. There are 3 different types of disposable pads you can use, plus a reusable mopping pad. The disposable pads are a blue wet mopping pad, an orange damp mopping pad and a white dry sweeping or dusting pad. Two of each come with the iRobot Braava, which automatically selects the correct cleaning mode based on Braava jet pad type. The pads have a light clean scent. The reusable mopping pad is unscented and gets the floor wetter than the others.

Bot Cousteau doesn't suck up water, so these pads do a similar job to what a Swiffer would do, without you having to push it around. Our whole downstairs is porcelain tile and other hard surface flooring and it's a pretty large space, so I have to refill the water reservoir a few times during the cleaning. At that time I remove the cleaning pad, rinse off whatever dirt I can and put it back on. They are supposed to be single use but they can actually be used a few times. The only time I don't reuse them is when mopping the bathrooms.

Bot Cousteau measures 6.5 x 7 inches wide and is about 3.5 inches high with the wheels. At first I wondered why they didn't make him a similar size to the Roomba, but the beauty of this compact size is that it does a great job of getting around toilets and between cabinets in the bathroom. It gets to the places that are difficult to reach in the kitchen and family room too, places that I just sort of "overlook" when doing it by hand. I think the size and square shape are perfect.

The Braava runs on a rechargeable battery that comes with a little charger that you plug into the wall. It takes about two hours to charge and runs for well over an hour. It runs quietly. It runs in a fairly organized pattern compared to the Roomba, but manages to move around furniture and chair legs and walls that run at angles. Like E-Sweepio (our Roomba), Bot Cousteau manages to clean the whole room. We just let him do his own thing, refilling the water when the floor seems to be dry behind him. He will usually go back to where he started when finished, although he sometimes runs out of battery power and we have to recharge. (He doesn't have a dock) There are 3rd party replacement batteries available on Amazon (and perhaps some from iRobot, but I can't find them) that would be a good idea if you have a lot of floor space and don't want to worry about recharging in between.

I am far from being a meticulous housekeeper or even dreaming of becoming one, but between E-Sweepio and Bot Cousteau my floors look like I am, all the time. It's easy to clean a little dustbin or change a mop pad and than push a button and watch these guys get to work. And I love the technology that makes them so much more effective than I ever dreamed they would be.

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Ed.Doc99

Works well

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2020

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As other reviews state, this is not for scrubbing or deep cleaning. It's probably not heavy enough to scrub. When it stays connected to the app, it does a great job. Mine has been getting repeatedly disconnected from the app, so I changed my rating from four to three stars.

I just move all my furniture out of my cramped kitchen and let this bad boy do all the work! Yes, it goes around furniture, but I prefer to move mine. It even mops perfectly all the way around the door stops that stick out of the walls! It also goes on the sides of the toilet in my (small) bathroom. It will not fit behind my toilet, though.

It performs exactly as stated. It has a "lighthouse" feature that creates a virtual wall if you desire. You have to do that each time you clean, but it's easy: just hold the button down until the horizontal lights come on. It creates only one virtual wall per cleaning session, though, so you have to figure out which way to face it. It will not go behind the virtual wall.

The only issue I have with it is the water tank. It's hard to tell whether it's actually filled. I wish I could see inside or that there were an indicator like on a clothes iron. Also, before I connected it to the app, it was spraying as if it were damp sweeping, even in wet mop mode. But after downloading the app and connecting the Braava Jet robot, it now sprays so much water that it saturates the mopping pad and leaves a wet trail behind itself. Luckily, it doesn't show any streaks on my floors, but it might be a problem with other kinds of floors.

It's definitely a slipping hazard in wet mop mode. You have to let the floor dry to make sure you don't slip. Before I had the app, the floor would be dry instantly in wet mop mode. The app shows three different levels of water release for mopping, but no matter which level I selected, it still left the floor wet. I'm wondering about quality control now. Is this the way it is supposed to work? Or is mine faulty?

I ordered a replacement because of the spraying issue. The second one kept getting stuck, so I kept the wet trailer one. I would say that if your machine keeps getting stuck, order a replacement and see how that goes. The one I kept has never gotten stuck.

I also am disappointed that you can't put any cleaner in the robot, so you have to keep buying their single-use wet mop pads or spray the floor with cleaner if you're using a washable pad. But they do offer a cleaner that they say can go in any of their mops, so maybe that will work well with the washable pads.

Some people have said they would just use vinegar instead of water in the tank, or a mixture of water and vinegar, but even diluted vinegar can corrode things, so I'll only do that to descale it if the sprayer stops working. To prevent the sprayer from getting clogged, one could use distilled water.

Bottom line: I'm looking forward to getting an improved model in a few years, but for now this thing is awesome and well worth the ~$110 I paid for a used one. It didn't even look used. The only thing is that not all the pads were in the package. That's worth a $60 savings to me.

Finally, I think that some people who were not satisfied with it must not have swept first. It's common sense to sweep before you mop, so that same reasoning should be applied here. I had the robot do a sweep mode before the mop mode, and it worked out great.

This robot does a great job at dry sweeping, damp mopping, and wet mopping.

I am considering purchasing another battery and charger so I can sweep and mop my small bathroom and small kitchen all in one go. If you have a large area to mop, you'll probably want to buy an extra battery and charger.

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SpeedReader

Love this

Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2020

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I have used this a couple of times in a smaller half-bath/powder room which has tile flooring. I fully admit I hate cleaning floors so the floor had dust bunnies and hair in the corners. So, I went over it with a stick vacuum and then used the dry pad (which is akin to a dry Swiffer duster) then used the wet cleaning pad. Note, there are three types of pad, wet, damp and dry. All the pads themselves are actually dry. The damp and wet refers to how much water the unit will spray while cleaning. When the damp pad is connected the unit will spray less water than with the wet pad connected. The robot knows which pad is connected based on holes in the pad attachment that slips into the base of the robot. They look like old-school programming punch cards (for those who are old enough to remember what those were) and based on the configuration of the holes, the robot knows how much, if any, water to spray while cleaning. The robot holds 150 mL of water (so just over half a cup), which is strangely not in the documentation provided with the unit but can be found on the iRobot website. Today (Jan 5, 2020) was the second time I used it, just with the wet cleaning pad.

The first cleaning, about a week ago took a lot longer, probably 30 minutes with the dry pad, and another 30 with the wet pad. The second time, just using the wet pad took about 15-20 minutes. After the cleaning cycle, the floor was damp, but not extremely wet. So, the pad did a good job getting up most of the water that was sprayed. How clean it will get your floor will largely depend on how clean you had kept it up to the point of using the mop the first time. After the first use with the wet pad, I had to pick up some wet dust/hair clumps that were left on the floor. After the second use, there were almost none of those and the floor was cleaner. So, if you use it once a week or once every two weeks, it seems like it will do a great job keeping the floors clean.

Here are some pros and cons I have noticed after the first couple of uses:

Pros:

1. It is small and can maneuver around tight spaces. It had no problems getting around the back of the toilet and between the toilet and vanity in a small bathroom.

2. The pads are reasonably priced for replacement disposable pads, and there are washable pads available as well, so it ends up being very cost-efficient.

3. The pads can be ejected after you run it by a slide-type button, so you do not have to touch the pad to get it off the unit. Definitely a plus after cleaning a bathroom.

4. It is very light, even with water in it, and has a handle so you can pick it up without touching the bottom.

5. It has a rechargeable battery. While it does not have a docking station that the unit reconnects to and charges from like the more expensive units do, it does have a battery that pops in and out of the unit and plugs into a charging dock (which itself plugs into a regular wall outlet) to charge. It takes a couple of hours for the battery to charge, and when the robot is connected to the app, it has a battery indicator so you know how full the battery is.

Cons:

1. It does not have all the bells and whistles that the higher-priced units have, like a docking station, the ability to schedule times to clean, etc. It does have some "smartness" to it, such as a virtual wall feature that will allow you to set it down and not clean anything behind where the unit starts out, but that is about it. Personally, I just put it toward the back wall of the bathroom and shut the door and do not bother engaging the virtual wall. It will stop cleaning roughly where it started, so if you do not start it in front of the door, you will be able to open the door when it is done without it blocking the door (if the door swings into the room being cleaned).

2. It does not turn off on its own right away after the cleaning cycle stops. It is just a small point, but it would be nice if it just powered down right away after it stops so it does not waste battery power needlessly.

If I think of any other pros or cons as I use it, I will update the review. But, so far, after just a couple of uses I really like this, and definitely recommend it, especially if you are not cleaning large areas.

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Stacey Carroll

Battery must be removed and charged on a charger (and wheels only last 28 days)

Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2022

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MAY 29 - This thing requires more repair than anyone is going to want to do. The battery died after a month. Bought 2 more batteries ($30). One of those stopped working today, and they're 2 weeks old. the mopper pads are $9 every 10 days. TO date, I've probably spent an additional $100 on this thing. it's expensive to run. It requires a lot of repair. It's like everything made for this mopper is just junk. when it works, it does a fine job, but getting it to work reliably is just insane. I've been fighting it all morning today. I've had enough. I'm going to have to buy something else.

An additional 28 days later - The tread came separated from the wheel. This causes the mopper to run around in circles and not mop. Ordered new wheels and treads, but I would expect the wheels and treads to last a lot longer than 28 days.

First up - I wouldn't recommend paying full price for this. Wait until you see a used/damaged one and get that. It just isn't worth $180-$200. the feature listing makes it sound more awesome than it is. It just isn't that awesome. Like others have said - It's a mechanized wet-jet. It probably shouldn't be priced higher than $75.

So, what's wrong with it

1. Does not have a docking station. It has a charger, and you must remove the battery and charge it on the charger. This is annoying.
2. You cannot schedule it. There is no way to set it to go at a certain time. The ability isn't even in the irobot home app. It may be a feature in other models, but not this one.
3. Even with the app, you still have to be within 10 feet of it to get it to go.

So, does it actually clean?

Yes, it actually cleans. Once you get the battery charged and in the slot and the water port filled, it does clean. It runs for 60-90 minutes. Then, it goes to find the place where you set it down, and it returns to that place. However, out of the 3 times I've used it so far, it only found that place once. So, you're going to be hunting it.

Does it clean in an organized fashion?

More or less. It tries to go in straight lines. However, it seems to get confused when it encounters an object. It sort've muddles around a bit before it figures out where it needs to be. The good part about this is that it won't spray if it thinks it's already mopped in that spot. So it doesn't really waste any water/cleaning solution. It just wastes battery.

The battery does seem to charge fairly quickly. Within a couple hours.

Does it get stuck?

Not as bad as a robot vacuum. So far, I've had it get trapped between a vent and a wall and under the door of the fridge

Does it climb?

No. If you've got anything beyond a quarter of an inch, it won't roll over it, and if it is a quarter of an inch, it may go over it one way but not back again.

It is definitely an intro mopper. It does get the job done, and if you have multiple rooms to clean, you can take the battery out, charge it, refill the water, set it back down and send it off again without changing the cleaning pad.

I like it because it does what I wasn't doing in the first place - mopping my floors. Since, I'm not going to do it, this thing does a better job than me. If you already mop your house. You have time to mop your house, you won't like this.

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AspryWrites

Two Months Of Continuous Use And It's A Solid 3-Stars.

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2021

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After two months of dedicated use, I think I'm finally qualified to give this a fair review.

Just like with most domestic devices, this one takes a bit of getting used to. Like breaking in a coffee machine or a new skillet, it takes some messing with to really understand its particular quarks. And once you "get it," things become easier to work out.

What I mean by that is, it took me a few tries to realize that the cleaning solution isn't always welcome. I noticed that using it on my hardwood floors left streaks. But using it in my bathrooms cleaned things up well. Also, on my hardwood, I reduce the water spray to its lowest setting to also limit streaks. On the bathroom floors, I turn it all the way up. It doesn't leave streaks in those places and it just goes to town.

As far as cleaning goes, I'm not a dirty or junky person, but the machine wipes deeply enough, dry or wet, to always collect some amount of dirt. I always dry sweep the floors before wet mopping and it surely helps to develop that routine. When pouring in the water, I tilt the device forward in order to fill the whole reservoir. For the bathrooms, I pour in the suggested amount of cleaning fluid. For my hardwoods, I use none.

There isn't much push to this thing, but it does get the dirt. No scrubbing and no power to speak of. This is sweeping at its most sweepy. I don't think I mind because, as I said, there is always evidence of its cleaning success left behind. I use disposable as well as all three of the reusable pads. I have only reused a used pad once, because in my opinion, it wasn't very dirty at all. But I do not recommend it.
Once a week, I dedicate a cleaning day to the house, and I put all the robots to work. That's three bathrooms and one medium-sized hardwood floor for this Jet. After about 2 bathrooms, the battery is shot and I have to pause everything to recharge. So...

The battery is abysmal. I went out and bought the Powtree 3.6V 6000mAh Replacement Li-ion Battery for iRobot Braava Jet as a backup. It is no longer the backup. Immediately, the new battery proved itself to be superior to the IROBOT batt in every way. Don't waste any time - bite the bullet and buy this battery if you're trying to clean more space that just a couple little bathrooms. It's at least triple the power of that little baby thing that came with the Jet. And also, with this device, you must detach the battery to charge it.

When it comes to pad usability, I have every kind. I prefer the throwaways because you can see the dirt and know what kind of work the device has done and been doing. But because that's expensive, I lean harder on the keepers for obvious reasons. Most specifically, the Wolfish 6 Packs Washable Mopping Pads for iRobot Braava Jet. As a con, the dry pad is gray for some reason, and you won't know what kind of job the machine did afterwards when searching the pad for dirt. I guess that's no big deal, but the ability to confidence check is surely gone because of the color of the reusable dry pad.

They all slide right on and can subsequently pop off just as easily with the flick of the release switch up top. These reusable pads do not detach from the card for easy washing machine cleaning. Some of the ones they have on the market do detach. I bought ones that didn't. It has not been a problem when cleaning - I just throw the whole things in the washer and let them get clean on a low setting. I don't put anything else in there with them. Between my main mop and this one, I could clean 6 pads in one load.

Using the app is easy but can be inconvenient. You have to hit the button on the device to wake it up before the app can connect. You also have to name all your devices on the app for reasons. In my case, Alexa needs to know what to call them anyway, so I gave them unique names. I decided to name them after famous media housekeepers like Florence from the "Jeffersons," or "Mrs. Garrett" from "Diff'rent Strokes." This Jet is named Mr. Belvedere. Mr. Belvedere cannot talk to the phone app via wifi, so it has to connect using Bluetooth. You don't have to do anything special here, it will just connect. However, you must be close by. I cannot sit comfortably on the couch downstairs and use the app to tell Mr. Belvedere upstairs to start mopping like I do my M6 called Alice. So, stand near the device when using the app. The app can change various settings such as fluid spray power and it keeps you updated on the battery power.

Using the invisible barrier is easy enough but not always reliable. The machine has forgotten about the barrier on every other occasion. To use the barrier, you hard press the button with the rear facing your "invisible barrier." When the two red lines ignite, you're good to go. If it remembers the barrier, that is. At all. Furthermore, the device has failed multiple times at recognizing rugs. I've re-entered a room only to see Mr. Belvedere clumsily fumbling around in the middle of my rug like it hit its head on a rock and wandered in a daze. It's a pathetic sight to behold, really. Go home, Mr. Belvedere - you're drunk! That's a solid...solid star lost.

The fact is, once you figure out how to make it work, you can make it work. But unlike the M6, the Jet isn't as dependable. Mine has climbed on top of the rug, making me have to fold the rug every time I want the floor mopped. The battery is lousy and the learning curve is steep enough that you might mess up your hardwood floor if you don't figure out the learning curve quickly enough. It's a solid 3-star device and only has a positive rating because it's literally keeping me from having to do these floors myself. And that's what I'm talking about right there.

Okay bye.

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Peter Harrison

The perfect robomop for a smaller home.

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2021

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Our new-to-us home has beautiful white oak flooring throughout the 1080 square foot main level that is split into a living room, dining room, kitchen, two bedrooms, a bathroom, a hallway, and a cutout for stairs to the attic and basement. To keep the finish on our floors in good shape we knew we'd have to keep them clean so, as soon as we moved in, we bought a self-emptying Shark robovac (which is wonderful) and more recently purchased this Roomba Braava 240 robomop to keep the floors even cleaner.

Our Braava 240 robomop has been great. Using nothing more than a freshly charged battery, water, and a reusable cleaning pad, our Braava robomop slowly and quietly cleans our largest room, our living room, on a single battery charge. When it's done it returns to (roughly) its starting position. It even does a great job on our kitchen floor.

Our living room floor really needed cleaning the first time we ran the Braava. Along with the general dirt and dust our Shark Robovac doesn't suck up (no vacuume is perfect), there were spots where there had been small spills, and a small patch where an an oily, gummy substance must have arrived on the bottom of someone's shoe.

Despite using nothing more than water and a reusable mopping pad, the Braava got everything, except the gummy spot, cleaned up and the floor looked great. Better yet, walking around barefoot, my wife and I could feel how much cleaner the floor was! If you're wondering about that gummy spot, I scraped it up with a fingernail, then used a paper towel, and a squirt of Simple Green to get rid of it.

Our Braava also did a good job on the kitchen floor. I think, however, I'll try giving the cleaning pad a squirt or three of Simple Green to get it just a bit cleaner.

The Braava 240 is a pretty simple-to-use tool. After vacuuming the floor, just grab the battery out of the wall charger (it takes about 2 hours to charge), out it in the robot, slide a cleaning pad in, fill the water tank through the port under the carry handle. With those preparations done, put the robot down in a corner or doorway into a room and press the power button a couple times.

Cleanup is simple, too. Push the cleaning pad "eject" button, pull the battery out and put it in the charger, then drain any remaining water out. If you use reusable pads, like we do to reduce the amount of waste and chemicals we pump into our environment, rinse the cleaning pad off, then use a drop or two of dish soap and a scrub brush to gently agitate (not "scrub") the soap into the microfiber pad, rinse, repeat, and hang it up to dry.

This robomop probably is nơt everyone's best mopping solution. Our small livingroom is right at the edge of the Braava 240's cleaning capacity so, if you have a larger home or want to mop several rooms at a time, you probably want to get one of Roomba's higher-end robomops. And this little mop doesn't have the smarts found on higher-end robomops. Basically, you plop the Braava 240 down on the floor facing into the room you want cleaned, push the single button on the top a couple times, and let it do its thing. There is no scheduling feature, no map of your floorplan, no electronic or magnetic barrier.

However, for those who don't have larger floorplan and don't need a more autonomous robomop, the Braava 240 is quiet enough to run while you are sleeping and gets the floor clean.

Now we've been using RoboMop (it has a name now) for a while, I'll add two things to my initial review, one good, one bad.

On the plus side, we have a few spots in our floorplan our Shark robot vac can't get to. It's just too big to fit in the narrow spaces between some of the our furniture legs. (See picture.) I used to need to grab our regular vacuum to get those spots cleaned, but now RoboMop does them for me, and that is awesome!

On the down side, RoboMop's virtual wall feature doesn't work well. If I point it into a room to and set the virtual wall, it inevitably loses track and wanders into the adjoining space after cleaning my target room, then parks itself in some random spot when the battery runs low. Today, after mopping the living room, that spot was under the dining room table.

Note: We bought a used, returned-to-Amazon Roomba Braava 240 as an Amazon Warehouse deal. Other than coming with reusable, instead of disposable, cleaning pads, this "used - acceptable" condition purchase looked and runs as good as new.

Pros:
* Simple to use.
* Quiet.
* Does a good job of mopping the floor with nothing more than a reusable mop pad and some water. It actually uses less water than I would if I mopped the floor myself.
* Works with environmentally friendly, reusable cleaning pads that seem to last a couple months or disposable ones that get tossed after a single cleaning run.
* Leaves the floor damp, not wet, and it dries pretty quickly.
* Perfect for cleaning rooms under 250 square feet.
* Doesn't fall down stairs.
* Stays off of most rugs. (Except really flat ones, see picture.)

Cons:
* No way to set up "invisible barriers" and the virtual wall feature didn't work for me.
* No scheduling options.
* Can't handle larger rooms.
* No self-charging dock.
* Stays off of most rugs and carpets with a raised edge . . . just not the thin, rubber-backed one we have leading up to our side-door. It got stuck there! (We are replacing the rug runner.)

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C.M. & T.M.

LIFE CHANGING for people who are OCD about having clean floors (love it so much we bought two!)

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2018

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This machine is the most amazing houseware I have ever purchased. I don't say that lightly.

I originally bought this guy to wash the bathroom floor in between days when I steam mop it. I'm OBSESSIVE about keeping the grout in my master bathroom clean and the floor debris-free (plus I have a health care issue that sort of dictates that the bathroom be kept as clean and sterile as possible) and I really felt myself being pulled toward scrubbing the floor daily. That's not good for the bathroom or my back (I was born with Spina Bifida), so I thought I could get this little robot and have it wash the floor for me so I wouldn't feel like I needed to be scrubbing daily.

The Braava works wonderfully. It's NOT a deep scrubber- it won't get your grout white after years of grime, and it's not going to take the place of a regular deep clean. It WILL clean all smooth surfaces (tile, laminate, vinyl, etc.) and it does pass over the grout enough times to moisten it and get up any debris. I run it twice with two re-useable/washable pads (order those separately, Roomba makes their own, but we do have third party ones that are fine, too).

As far as tile, I rinse the re-useable pad and then before the machine runs, I spray a little puddle of anti-bacterial Windex or Scrubbing Bubbles on the floor in the robot's path, so the pad soaks up the cleaner as it goes by and then cleans the entire floor with it. You can run the robot in water-only mode, but I like using a cleaning agent.

Here's a trick- if you are worried it's not hitting all the surfaces in your rooms, get a washable marker and leave little dots around the areas you want to make sure get hit. If the robot washes those areas, you'll know because the mark will be gone. If not, you can use the mobile phone app to instruct the robot to deep clean that specific area (plus the marker wipes up with a little bit of water).

The surprising thing about this cleaner is something I didn't even consider when i bought it- dry cleaning mode. There are swiffer-esque pads available (disposable) and they get up EVERYTHING. Hair, fur, seed, dirt, sand, crumbs, dry cat food, etc. I wasn't expecting to use this machine in any other way except for the wet scrubbing mode in my bathroom, but I loved the dry sweep mode so much I bought a SECOND robot for our great room and I literally start it up in the morning with a dry sweeper pad on it and leave it running all day. It goes through the kitchen, entry and living room and whenever it cycles out, I just move it to a new area and restart it. I get several hours of cleaning from one battery charge.

We have four cats, two birds, plus my thirteen year old and my husband (both who shed more hair than the cats it would seem, which kinda grosses me out...) so there's always something on the floor no matter how many times a day we vacuum and "zip up" with the stick vacs. So now we just have this guy running and even with us vacuuming daily, it still gets up enough stuff to gross me out and want several more of these, to run in little formation, all over my house.

We also use it to clean the laminate floors- out of all the combinations we try the best is either using one of their disposable wet pads or using a dry re-usable wet pad and spraying a bunch of Bona on the floor in front of the unit when we start it. There *can* be a little streaking, but I am okay with that- I'd much rather have that than have gross sticky spots of that weird and disgusting oily/waxy bloom that we get with other cleaners.

I have never had a product that I have found so useful and time saving and life enhancing like this one. If you're a clean floor freak, you HAVE to get this. Order a bunch of re-useable/rewashable wet pads and a bunch of the disposable dry sweeper ones.

JUST GET THIS. (sorry for the all caps scream-y yelling thing, but I can't recommend this enough.)

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MAJOR FLAW IN INSTRUCTIONS

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2018

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Received the 240 Robot Mop yesterday, charged battery last night and tested it out today.

First thing that caught my eye as I was reading the instructions was the step that showed filling the Robot Mop with tap water from the faucet. NO - just NO. All water from a faucet contain base minerals such as calcium and/or lime deposits. Normally there is just trace amounts that does not affect the drinkability of the water. (Except in my area where the calcium - not the good type but the type to cause kidney stones - exceeds the permitted level.) Even trace amounts of calcium and lime would accumulate in the device over even a short time and affect the operation of the machine. ALWAYS, always - use DISTILLED WATER in any electrical or electronic device. It's cheap and free of any chemicals that could ruin or clog up your piece of equipment. Folks, Distilled Water is not the same as purchased drinking water. If you read the label of purchased drinking water - it usually has additives in it. Distilled Water is plain, not enhanced in any way, water.

The next glitch was when I was pouring the warmed up distilled water into the machine. Even tilted, only a couple of tablespoon went in before it over filled. That was a puzzle until I closed the lid to the water department and tried again. Sure enough - had a air bubble in the small section. Closing the lid popped the air bubble and I was able to completely fill the compartment (takes 1/2 cup which is not mentioned anywhere in instructions). Also, the unit ran out of water before the battery died. This was at around the 2 hour mark. Since I was keeping close watch on the machine, I stopped the machine and added just a little more water to the unit since I knew that the battery should be die any time soon.

The battery lasted longer that I thought it would - almost 3 hours on Wet Mop. Finished the kitchen, dining room and entry way and almost all of a bathroom before the battery died.

Another mild confusion is when I first set the unit down on the floor and hit the "Clean" button to start the unit cleaning. That's according to the instruction booklet picture. NOTHING HAPPENED! I was thinking about all the reviewers who had said that the brand new unit didn't work and wondered if I got a bad unit also. Then I reminded myself that with my Neato that one push to the "Home" button turns the device on but you have to push the button again to start the cleaning cycle. I pushed the "Clean" button again and the Robot Mop started mopping. I wonder how many people that returned the unit because it didn't work only pushed the "Clean" button once.

If your looking for a logical pattern in the "Wet Mop" mode - there isn't one. It was kinda funny watching the little guy just go every which way. Sometimes covering areas several times but did clean the entire kitchen and dining room very well. It did lose it's little mind around the kitchen island. At one point toward the end, it started going around and around the kitchen island one way and turn around and went the other way on the same path around the kitchen island. I finally stopped it and put it on a path that covered the entry way area that is connected to the kitchen and off it went and cleaned that area.

The entry way area does include steps down to the living room but the Robot Mop was a champ and cleaned up to the very edges but never took a dive off the landing.

Summary or what the instructions should include but don't:
1 Carefully look over battery and machine and remove ALL packing materials including the very tiny white form pieces in the sides of the machine. Raise up the handle to see better.
2 Battery charges really quick but an extra one would be helpful. Exact replacement cost is $29.99. (Recommend that you go to the iRobot web site and register!)
3 Heat Distilled Water for around 30 seconds and pour 1/2 cup into the water container. Tilt the machine forward. If you have problems - close the lid and open to pop any bubble. (No problems with bubbles after the first time.) DO NOT pour boiling water into the device. WARM water only. If water is too hot for your finger, pour some more Distilled to cool it down.
4 Push "Clean" button once to turn on the device and then push the button AGAIN to start the cleaning process.

While this machine is not a programmable one and must be manually taken to whatever area you want cleaned - it's still pretty nice. I was rather impressed with the job it did even when I had to redirect it away from the VERY clean area around the kitchen island. It's not perfect but it does the job good enough for me to be happy with it. If things change - I'll update my review.

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A huge disappointment

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2020

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* I added a picture to show how filthy the wheels get. I was able to remove one wheel (not the other, since the cheap screw stripped so it can’t be removed). I removed one wheel and wet it, then rolled it back and forth on a white paper towel. The second picture is showing a trail of dirt left by the mop wheel — it’s a little hard to see given the color of the tile but in the middle of image you can see a sort of “dotted line” of grossness making a sort of broad “U” shape.

A DISPOSABLE MOP HEAD IS POINTLESS is the *WHEELS THEMSELVES* accumulate dirt that the machine just ends up spreading around your floor.

Given the color of my floor, the photographs I took of the parallel lines of grime that the Braava leaves behind are not visible on a camera phone picture, so that’s why I put it on a white paper towel to prove it.

To be clear, I am the farthest thing from an OCD type... but I do expect a device the this to clean at least a little.

UPDATE about three months later: IT GETS EVEN WORSE -- FAR, FAR WORSE.

Disgusted, frustrated updates to the below that I didn't realize before:

1) The wheels have a sort of fabric / felt covering on them that can not be removed / washed. Therefore, they end up getting filthy (vs. the cleaning pads which can be tossed in the washing machine) and they end up CREATING A PATH OF DIRT wherever the wheels go. Hello? This grossness *completely undoes* the washing of the mop pad -- sure, the mop pad is nice and clean, but the wheels are filthy!??

2) It TOTALLY will ride up on carpet. Be vigilant if you have a valuable rug that you don't want to get wet

3) THE WATER TANK IS NOT LARGE ENOUGH -- by this I mean, if the typical battery life is, say, let's call it one hour... well, the water tank only has enough capacity for about 20 minutes' worth of water. THEREFORE -- unilke the Roomba, which you can "Set and forget", if you set this stupid mop to run while you leave the house, when you come back, only half of your floor will be clean, since it ran out of water 30 minutes ago and is simply pushing around a damp / now mostly dry pad on the floor, which is not cleaning up diddly-squat.

4) Ok so this complaint is not new, but I still can't believe this: the robot is stupid. Not like my smart, awesome Roomba. This robot will seriously -- IN A RECTANGULAR ROOM -- that is, nothing tricky, no furniture in the way, etc -- just a simple rectangle -- this idiot robot will re-re-re-re-re-mop the same part over and over and over and over again, and then ignore the rest of the room?

This company is lucky that I adore my Roomba so much -- I seriously can't believe that the same company that made my beloved Roomba also made this unintelligent, "water tank not large enough", "gets your rugs and carpets wet", "gets 'stuck' only cleaning one part of the floor over and over again" piece of JUNK. And since the wheels are now filthy, even with clean mopping pads each time, it doesn't matter, because now when the wheels get wet, they leave a TRAIL OF FILTH everywhere.

iRobot -- guys. what were you thinking???

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Not only have I owned two Roomba vacuums in the past, I love the Roomba so much I’ve convinced several friends and family members to purchase one.

So, what better excuse than a quarantine to let myself purchase the braava, a robot I’d had my eye on for a while?

My biggest disappointment ISN’T that I can’t use my own “wood for good” cleaner (which I bulk bought tons of in the past), NOR that each pad is only good for cleaning about half a room before it needs to be replaced (buy the re-useable ones from third parties)...

.... my biggest frustration is that this robot is stupid. Unlike my beloved Roomba, this little mechanical idiot will literally clean the same part of one room three, four times.... while COMPLETELY IGNORING the rest of the room.

I know this for a fact, not only because I’ve sat and watched it out of the corner of my eye while doing something else (hey, it’s quarantine; what else have I got to do?), but also I’ve set out a few little “traps” (of either crumbs, or of puddles of cleaning solution) throughout my kitchen, just to verify that those areas are completely untouched.

There is an island in my kitchen. This mechanical moron seems to end up going around and around and AROUND the island over and over again, while completely ignoring the other wall.

I am driven to madness this morning; I’ve been watching this stupid thing out if the corner of my eye go for AN HOUR right now; by my count, it’s done the area around the island four or five times right now, but has completely ignored the opposite wall on the left.

Yesterday, I set it to run on the same kitchen — starting it in a location on the opposite side of the room, and again, the same area would be gone over two, three times:.: while other parts would be untouched.

Just a big let-down given how much I truly love my Roomba.

UPDATE: decreasing from three to one star. My kid had a good idea — let’s see how well the Braava did by gently gliding the Swiffer Wet Jet over the floor, right after Braava has spent over an hour on it.

To be clear, this was my KID using the swiffer, so it was not a thorough job, and in only about two minutes of swiffing, look at how filthy the pad is!!! (argh, I can't upload the picture, but imagine that you run your Braava over the floor, and then a SMALL CHILD pushes a swiffer mop over the same area, and the swiffer mop pad comes back almost BLACK with dirt?!?!?!)

If it weren’t for the pain in the behind of doing returns during quarantine, I would return this. * I AM TRYING TO UPLOAD A PICTURE OF MY FILTHY SWIFFER, but it's not working? Booo...! Well, you can either trust me, or try it yourself! This device looks cute, but doesn't actually clean much! UGH.

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