iRobot Braava Jet 240 Superior Robot Mop - App Enabled, Precision Jet Spray, Vibrating Cleaning Head, Wet and Damp Mopping, Dry Sweeping Modes

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.

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.)

Although small, she does a brilliant job of cleaning floors. I’ve called her ‘Flora’ and she’s a big help with the housework, I can set her off in one part of the house and get on with other things, or set her off overnight, then by the next morning, the floors are clean. She is a little expensive, but compared to the new version by iRobot which can be programmed, it’s much more reasonably priced. Would definitely recommend her.

Battery getting low quickly

Como un apoyo basico es muy buena, limpia pisos muy sucios y agregandl un poquito de jabon liquido en la esponja, hace una excelente limpieza de un cuarto de 9mts cuadrados de forma autonoma. Sin embargo tiende a atorarse con las patas de muebles (por ejemplo la base de la cama) no se puede dejar sin supervision.

iRobot Braava Jet 240 My latest foray into the robotic floor-mopping sphere is the lowly little Braava Jet 240 which was released back in March. I waited a while to buy this one, mainly because I already had several working Scoobas I’ve bought over the years that still work like a charm, and I thought I had no need for any more robots. More recently, I tested the Braava series 320, with the water reservoir add-on and a few extra reusable pads. My experience with the 320 was somewhat lacking to say the least. Though I really wanted to love it, problems kept popping up much too often on the 320. Navigation issues would lead to frequent coverage issues, and the Northstar cube just refused to connect 3/4 of the time, no matter what I tried. The older scooba 230 is on its second battery and is beginning to die early, and the 390 doesn’t really like the new thresholds and vents at my new house since I moved and has since become a real pain to use with 100% success. Enter the Braava Jet 240. I first saw this robot when it was released and decided this was one I would sit out. To me, it just seemed much too small to have any effect on dirt… just looking at that that tiny pad it uses. What could that possibly do? When I bough this little guy I was really tossing the dice, hoping it would make up for some of the shortfalls of the other floor washing robots I’ve used. And it did not disappoint. The Jet has a few tricks up its sleeves designed to make life a little easier. Like smarter, cube-free navigation, to the best suspension I’ve seen in any iRobot so far. It also has 3 cleaning modes for use in different situations, with a dry sweeping mode and a water squirting feature that is much more effective than the 320’s wet pad and reservoir (which dried up all the time before the reservoir was even empty) All these features made me really wish I had this model over the 320. So I got on Amazon and ordered one. The box it came in is gorgeous. iRobot has really nailed the unboxing experience here, with their sharp, eye-popping colour graphics and perfect placement of everything in the box, you get the feeling that you’re getting quality. From the instruction booklet to the charger, everything has its place, everything wrapped in perfectly-formed cellophane and surrounded by cardboard cutouts to keep everything tight for shipping. Lifting the cardboard away, we find the shiny white plastic-clad ‘bot accompanied by a lithium battery, wall charger, and samples of all 3 types of pads. Picking the robot up for the first time revealed a hefty, solid-feeling product with a very premium feel for the price. I suspect heavy weights are placed inside for balance. The bot itself is beautifully designed. Nothing is left wanting. I was still leery about the puny pad size, but we’ll soon see if they do the job. I wasted no time and got the battery charging right away. I was happy that it only took a couple hours to get the green light so I could get this thing going. I loved that the battery just pops in by pressing it into the robot, no need for alignment or orientation, it just pops in. Some extra batteries would be nice, but I couldn’t find any at this time. The iRobot website claims that replacement batteries are coming, though when is anyone’s guess. It would add so much convenience to keep working longer with pre-charged batteries, which is a huge advantage over the Scooba 230, which took 7 hours to charge and had to charge on-board. Using the Jet 240 is just stupid-simple and hassle-free compared to past Scoobas. They just couldn’t have made it easier. Simply choose a space roughly 200sf that you want cleaned, place the appropriate cleaning pad on the robot, set the robot on the floor in the bottom left of the area chosen and press Clean. Depending on the pad installed, the robot will read it and adjust its operation for that specific cleaning mode. In wet modes, the whole cleaning head actually vibrates, increasing scrubbing effectiveness. Gone are the days of measuring cleaning solution, cleaning half a dozen dirty robot parts and rescuing the robot from those dreaded vents and thresholds. This unit just works and works wonderfully. What they don't tell you though, is that these floor cleaning robots work best when you start with a thoroughly hand-washed floor, and periodically run your iRobots to maintain the clean. When I tried the Braava Jet on the dirty kitchen floor it left the entire floor cloudy and when I ran the Scooba afterward, the dirty water was filthy. So this robot won't clean up heavily soiled floors, and it's necessary to run a Scooba once a week to do the deep cleaning. After the 200sf was finished, you can set it for another 200sf by creating a virtual wall by holding the Clean button, you can prevent the robot from going back to the area it has already cleaned, and in this way you can cover more and more space with each battery charge. There is no need to expect this robot to clean an entire 800sf area at once, as its cleaning performance does suffer at that square footage, leaving streaks. A quick rinse of the pad between runs and streaks are kept to a minimum, if any at all. What I dislike about this unit is the rare occasion it does get stuck, it completely aborts the mission, and you must restart from scratch. Elation quickly turned to frustration as I watched the bot hang up on the corner of the nastiest vent in the house, only to call it quits. There's a narrow passage beside my bathroom vanity which Braava entered but couldn't escape. The Scooba 230 navigates this area with ease. I was disappointed with the lack of grout-cleaning performance on the bathroom tiles. Neither the reusable washing pad or the disposable washing pad were able to reach into the grout lines at all. I really liked the tough build and high-quality feel of the bot in my hand, the rubber wheels feel nice and grippy, the suspension is incredibly well-designed, and I liked the reusable blue wet pad, with what feels like bristles embedded in the microfibre for more effective scrubbing. I’ve always recommended the Scooba line of robots over the years but this robot solves a lot of the frustrations involved with using those older models. The absurd simplicity and the sensible price make the Braava Jet 240 easy to recommend for anyone looking for their ticket out of one of the worst chores. If you’re thinking about buying one, don’t hesitate… go for it! It’s a great little helper to have around and won’t break the bank. If you found this review helpful please let me know by clicking "Yes" below! 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The amount of time it takes to mop 1 room , you can mop the whole house in the same time by hand, very slow n its mop size is very small too. Wasted 40k on this by watching its reviews and videos but nobody told its negatives, total waste of money, plz dont buy this and spend your money on something useful ..wish I had known these problems before buying it..