We installed one ourselves and love it. There are many different brands and sizes - we went with an Imperium from this place: http://www.centralvacuumstores.com/  They were extremely friendly and helpful. I think that we spent about $700 or so. They sell some adaptors so you can use regular sized PVC pipes in the walls - we bought that at HD instead of having the pig pipes shipped. If you have your walls open, it's very easy to install. We have the wall inlets that you plug the hose into for most of the house and also a sweeper pan like you mention above in the kitchen. We have only hardwood floors and a few rugs in the house - and lots of dogs, so lots of dog hair. Supposedly, central vacs last much longer than a regular vac, making it comparable over the long term. Ours has only been installed for a few years - I guess we will see how it holds up.

Love the color, it is exactly what we wanted. As for quality, it‘s our 1st experience with LVP (we are more used to engineered hardwood), and we’re glad we went with the CoreTEC Grande line. I‘m not sure we’d like a thinner LVP that doesn‘t have that super realistic surface layer or the weight to it. The CoreTEC Grande planks are super realistic, heavy and thick, more like wood would be. And they transition nicely to floor tile. Plus, they have a slightly thicker cork layer on the bottom (compared to most LVP planks) and it does feel very nice underfoot. Overall, it’s holding up very well and still looks like new. It’s a little more difficult to get rub or scuff marks off but it resists dog claws and our kids‘ toys better than wood does. One thing to note…if you plan to use rugs with a polypropylene backing on them (most on Wayfair or Amazon have this backing), you need to use a special rug pad in order to protect the floor from developing serious surface problems. Wool or cotton rugs are fine, though. We have two rugs with polypropolene backing, so we bought a couple rug pads from Rug Pad USA before laying down those rugs. So yes, so far so good for us. Good luck and make sure you hire a good installer. There are definitely some tricks to installing the Grande line as the tongue and groove mechanism is VERY fragile. Use a scrap piece of a plank as an install block instead of a regular floor install block. The scrap piece fits together with the plank you are installing and when you hammer the scrap piece (or a regular block up against a scrap piece), it pushes the plank into place without breaking the tongue and groove material, if that makes sense. A regular block just crushes the tongue and groove material once you start hammering. Anyways, sorry for the long post. Hope its hepful.

suki mom, we have blended Sienna. We went over hardwood and tile, and had to have a lot of floor corrections done to make the floor flat enough for the warranty. The installation was complete about a week ago and we are cleaning and getting things put back together. One thing we have noticed is a handful of very small pin holes on the surface, in the middle of planks. we noticed 2 of them during our inspection of the work and the installer filled them with a wax type material and they are not noticeable. We found another one today. I am wondering if we got a few bad plank or if this might be an ongoing issue. Thanks for feedback. We really like the floors.

Site finished floors need refinishing more often than high quality prefinished floors if the prefinished floors have a durable finish. Also, depending on your weather, solid wood floor planks expand and contract. We live in ND and in the winter we had sizeable gaps between planks.