Despite the enthusiasm of actors in Swiffer commercials, few people are smiling at the workout that is manually mopping their hardwood and tile floors.
If even plain old vacuuming dredges up that same type of dread, consider automating both sweeping and mopping by investing in a robot vacuum that mops.
Are robot vacuums good at mopping?
I’m not saying you can expect a hybrid robot vacuum to scrub your kitchen grout with the same tenacity you would get with a toothbrush. But mopping robots have gotten much better at mopping over the past few years.
Since 2020-ish, most top robot vacuum brands have added a few automatic moppers to their lineup, spanning the pricing spectrum from as affordable as $200 to well over $1,000. Expectedly, the mopping technique gets more meticulous as the price goes up, so the soil level of your floors on any given day will play a big part in how much you should be spending on a 2-in-1 robotic cleaner. Are you mostly concerned with wiping up easy spur-of-the-moment spills, or will you be a stickler about dried-on stains that call for more heavy-duty scrubbing?
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