We installed a vac pan in the toe kick of our kitchen. I thought it would be more convenient for removing crumbs etc than pulling out the Hide A Hose! Was I wrong! The only time the vac pan is switched on is when the Roomba bumps the switch! For me it's a big yes to Roomba, a big yes to Hide A Hose, no to vac pan!

I'm not a central vac fan (which seems to surprise my various family members), but my sister-in-law has central vac with the vacpan in the toekick of the kitchen cabinets and she loves it...but I think it's gross! There are all sorts of crumbs and gunk stuck in the cracks there...I guess you'd have to use a toothpick or something to clean it all out. I find it really hard to sweep everything underneath the cabinets personally, you practically have to "flick" the crumbs to get sucked up because of the lip of the vacpan. If you know you want a vacpan in the bathroom, it's probably not as big of a deal having a toekick there as it is in the kitchen since you'd mostly be sweeping up hair vs crumbs. As much as I hate central vac, I would absolutely love having one in the bathroom since I have long hair and it seems like I have to vacuum in there constantly! ...Though, now that I really think about it, if you use a broom to sweep the hair into the vacpan, will the broom cling onto the hair or will it release easily? It seems like sweeping hair always leads to a hairy broom.

I have a vac pan in my kitchen (under the toe kick in an easily accessible cabinet) and use it every day -- love it. I so wish I had put one in the master bathroom -- if I had it would have been flush to the baseboard.

We put one in the kitchen, but honestly for us we just pull out the hide a hose and vacuum rather than sweep most days.

I don't but my DSIL does, it is in the baseboard of the wall between kitchen/family room and bedrooms/laundry. It's awesome. Not really noticeable, but so easy to sweep into. I would think under a toe kick would be really hard to sweep in to, and too easy to kick with your toe. What about on the end of the cabinet run, with no toe kick?

Toe-kick vac was quite useful; I sealed the edge to the stone floor with clear caulking to avoid the gook under the pan problem.

I don't have a vacpan, but use a Vroom (mini hose connected to central vac system) in the kitchen. It does take up a little space in the cupboard under my prep sink but well worth it for me.

30-foot hose plus vac pan in kitchen and laundry. Works for me. Wish I could have done a hide a hose but for a variety of reasons it wasn't gonna happen. I use the vac pan for quick clean ups and find it less inconvenient and more thorough than sweeping into a dustpan.

The vacpan in my former house was on the side of the island which was flat and did not have a toe kick area. We loved our central vac and the vacpan, and plan to have additional vacpans in the new house.

Why fetch a broom to do an OK job if you can easily fetch the vacuum hose and do a perfect job? Whoosh! Gone.