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These deals on electric scrubbers will keep your house fresh and your wallet fat
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Electric spin scrubbers are one of the best tools you can use for spring cleaning. These genius products were designed to do all the grunt work of scrubbing for you. They can also get into harder-to-reach areas of your home, cutting down on the fatigue and pain that comes with getting into uncomfortable and awkward positions while deep cleaning.
Some of these scrubbing tools can get expensive, which is why we rounded up the best electric scrubber deals — just int time for your thorough spring cleaning plans. Shop and save up to 61% off on scrubbers big and small, including the Voweek electric spin scrubber, which went viral on TikTok. And if you already have a power drill and would rather stick to that, we found an impressive 53% off deal on set of 20 scrubbing attachments.
Voweek electric spin scrubber: Save 61%
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This TikTok-famous electric spin scrubber can be extended more than 3.5 feet, and its head can be rotated in three different directions, including 90, 135 and 180 degrees. This allows you to get into hard-to-reach places such as the top of your shower walls, and saves you from the fatigue and back pain that you may experience while bending down to clean baseboards, or the interior of your shower or bathtub.
The scrubber has two speeds (high and low) and four cleaning attachments, including big and small flat brushes, a corner brush and a dome brush, the latter of which is fabulous for deep cleaning. This electric spin scrubber can also work for a long time — the battery lasts 1.5 hours on a single charge, which is longer than your average cordless vacuum cleaner.
The Voweek electric scrubber is currently 39% off on Amazon, but when you add the available $20 coupon, your savings increases to 61%.
Bomves electric spin scrubber: Save up to 53%
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This electric spin scrubber from Bomves is probably the most versatile model we’ve seen. You can not only convert it into a handheld model, but also play with eight attachments, including three bristle brushes (small, large and pointed), three cloth brushes (cloth, large cloth and wool cloth) and two sponge heads (a soft sponge and fiber sponge). There are two speed settings (low and and high) and it can last 1.5 hours on a single charge. After that, it’ll take three to four hours to charge back up again.
The Bomves electric spin scrubber has a 4.5-star rating on Amazon. One reviewer wrote, “Great for cleaning the shower. Impressed by the variety of attachments. Long lasting battery. Highly recommend!”
Another verified customer wrote, “This is absolutely amazing! I was able to clean stains that I never knew could be removed; it also made cleaning my stove so much easier.”
Right now, the Bomves scrubber is 14%. If you’re a Prime member, the product is discounted further at 53% off when you apply the available $15 coupon.
Rubbermaid power scrubber: Save 23%
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If you’re looking for an electric scrubber that is better equipped to handle smaller cleaning jobs, get this power scrubber from Rubbermaid.
This little wonder is great for getting into small areas that your hands can’t clean as efficiently, including the space between your range knobs, a kitchen faucet head, the exterior of your bathroom sink drain, the inside of your window sill and more.
The power scrubber can scrub 60 times per second and has two speed settings, including pulse and continuous. It is battery operated, so unlike other electric scrubbers, you aren’t confined to the maximum runtime you’d get from an electric scrubber that comes with a charger.
The device comes with an all-purpose scrubber head as well as a head specifically for grout. If you want a more versatile cleaning experience, add these larger Rubbermaid power scrubber heads to your cart as well.
Alloyman electric spin scrubber with two batteries: Save 33%
Amazon
This electric spin scrubber stands out with two battery packs, allowing you to extend the battery life of your electric spin scrubber by almost double, versus competitors You can use this for up to 2.5 hours and takes only an hour to charge (some similar models can take more than two hours).
This cleaning tool can extend up to four feet long and has two speed settings. Its cleaning head can be adjusted up to 45 degrees and attaches to four included brush heads, including a small and large flat brush, a corner brush and a round brush.
The Alloyman electric spin scrubber has a 4.3-star rating on Amazon. One reviewer said that “it works absolutely great”, adding: “My husband wanted this to see if it would work on his office floor at work. It’s a construction site so they have office trailers and the floors get really dirty. He used it and it did an amazing job.”
Holikme 20-pack brush attachments: Save 53%
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If you have a drill on hand, you can actually turn it into a handheld electric spin scrubber by getting brush attachments. This 20-pack set from Holikme has every attachment you need for myriad cleaning jobs.
Some of the attachments include bristle brushes of varying sizes and shapes, soft sponges, scouring pads, polishing pads and more. It also comes with a backer (attach this to the cleaning head) and an extension rod (attach the baker to this and then insert the extension rod into your drill). These should be compatible with any drill, so long as the drill can accommodate the extension rod.
The Holikme 20-pack brush attachment has more than 25,800 five-star ratings. One reviewer wrote that this “applies the elbow grease for me,” adding: “This item removed years of soap scum on bathroom tile in a house I purchased that had been a rental. I like the variety of brushes and pads that come with the package. Tile is shiny and smooth again.”
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill Saturday that would have required new cars to beep at drivers if they exceed the speed limit in an effort to reduce traffic deaths.
California would have become the first to require such systems for all new cars, trucks and buses sold in the state starting in 2030. The bill would have mandated that vehicles beep at drivers when they exceed the speed limit by at least 10 mph.
The European Union has passed similar legislation to encourage drivers to slow down. California’s proposal would have provided exceptions for emergency vehicles, motorcycles and motorized scooters.
In explaining his veto, Newsom said federal law already dictates vehicle safety standards and adding California-specific requirements would create a patchwork of regulations.
The National Highway Traffic Safety “is also actively evaluating intelligent speed assistance systems, and imposing state-level mandates at this time risks disrupting these ongoing federal assessments,” the Democratic governor said.
Opponents, including automotive groups and the state Chamber of Commerce, said such regulations should be decided by the federal government, which earlier this year established new requirements for automatic emergency braking to curb traffic deaths. Republican lawmakers also said the proposal could make cars more expensive and distract drivers.
The legislation would have likely impacted all new car sales in the U.S., since the California market is so large that car manufacturers would likely just make all of their vehicles comply.
California often throws that weight around to influence national and even international policy. The state has set its own emission standards for cars for decades, rules that more than a dozen other states have also adopted. And when California announced it would eventually ban the sale of new gas-powered cars, major automakers soon followed with their own announcement to phase out fossil-fuel vehicles.
Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, who sponsored the bill, called the veto disappointing and a setback for street safety.
“California should have led on this crisis as Wisconsin did in passing the first seatbelt mandate in 1961,” Wiener said in a statement. “Instead, this veto resigns Californians to a completely unnecessary risk of fatality.”
The speeding alert technology, known as intelligent speed assistance, uses GPS to compare a vehicle’s pace with a dataset of posted limits. If the car is at least 10 mph over, the system emits a single, brief, visual and audio alert.
The proposal would have required the state to maintain a list of posted speed limits, and it’s likely that those would not include local roads or recent changes in speed limits, resulting in conflicts.
The technology has been used in the U.S. and Europe for years. Starting in July, the European Union will require all new cars to have the technology, although drivers would be able to turn it off. At least 18 manufacturers including Ford, BMW, Mercedes-Benz and Nissan, have already offered some form of speed limiters on some models sold in America, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
The National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration estimates that 10% of all car crashes reported to police in 2021 were related to speeding. This was especially a problem in California, where 35% of traffic fatalities were speeding-related — the second highest in the country, according to a legislative analysis of the proposal.
Last year the NTSB recommended federal regulators require all new cars to alert drivers when they speed. Their recommendation came after a crash in January 2022, when a man with a history of speeding violations ran a red light at more than 100 mph and struck a minivan, killing himself and eight other people.
