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  • The iRobot Braava jet 240 Robot Mop (currently on sale for $169) cleans many types of hard floor surfaces, including tile, woods, stone, laminate, and polished concrete.
  • The Braava 240 has three different cleaning modes — wet mopping, damp mopping, and dry sweeping — and can clean every foursquare inch of your house or specific rooms, including effectually and under furniture.
  • With two cats and 2 kids, my business firm is never make clean, but the Braava 240 makes my floors look spotless.
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After my wife and I spent long hours selecting the all-time flooring for the various rooms in our dwelling, we finally chose a lovely slate gray tile for our kitchen and foyer. We spent then much time with this one because the first flooring is what about guests encounter first and because, like most families, nosotros spend most of our fourth dimension in the kitchen.

There's one problem with the tile that we discovered within a day of living in the renovated infinite. It shows every unmarried speck of dust. And hair. And crumb. And dried spill.

To add to the effect, nosotros have two cats and ii small kids, so there's a nonstop supply of furballs, dropped food, spilled beverages, and then on marring the floors.

I'thousand not being hyperbolic when I say that the floor requires daily mopping if nosotros want it to look clean. If y'all count all the spot cleaning needed subsequently meals and near the true cat box, it'due south really more like twice-daily mopping. And no, we don't have time for twice-daily mopping, every bit much fun as cleaning the floors tin can be.

And then what's the solution? Why, technology, of course.

The iRobot Braava jet 240 Robot Mop is just virtually 7 square inches and weighs about iii pounds, yet the thing is a game-changer of epic proportions when information technology comes to helping us go along a clean habitation without the hassle of cleaning information technology ourselves.

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Here'southward how complicated it is to operate the Braava jet 240: You charge the battery then pop it into the device. You attach a cleaning pad to the bottom of the unit. You put it down and plough it on. And boom — clean floors.

Using a battery of onboard sensors, this plucky little robotic mop will trundle all around your kitchen, completing overlapping passes that ensure complete coverage of the floor and deftly navigating effectually chair legs, tables, islands, and along walls. When the cleaning session is done, you just pop off the used cleaning pad right into the trash using the ejection button, so you never accept to touch the dirt, fuzz, crumbs, or whatever of the residuum of that mess.

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The Braava jet 240 works with iii different kinds of cleaning pads and information technology'll recognize which pad is used and suit its cleaning method. If you've used the wet pads, it'll exercise regular spritzes of cleaning fluid and become beyond an area of your floor three times, scrubbing seriously soiled floors; the clammy pads mean lighter sprays of fluid and two passes to lift dirt and trap dust; the dry out pad means no cleaning solution and 1 pass for general dust, hair, and other easily collected materials.

Also, don't worry if you have a staircase or another expanse in which you don't want your Braava jet 240 rolling around. You can command where the device goes or doesn't go with a few buttons on meridian of the robot mop.

Any device that tin take a time-consuming task off our to-do list is a winner in my book. The fact that the Braava jet 240 is and so easy to apply is just icing on the cake — a cake I could eat off the flooring afterward the mop has done its affair. Not that I would, heed you, I just said I could.

Steven John

Freelance Writer

Steven John is a freelance writer living virtually New York City by way of 12 years in Los Angeles, four in Boston, and the start eighteen almost DC. When non writing or spending time with his wife and kids, he can occasionally be found climbing mountains. His writing is spread across the web, and his books can be found at www.stevenjohnbooks.com.

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