Rocket- you will be routing like a champion within a couple of days tops. Get your son to start drawing your jobs in CAD, save as DXF files and you will be amazed how easy it is to import into type3 and generate G-code. You should be able to have some jobs saved to a USB drive prior to the machine arriving so could be doing your first cuts before the electrician leaves ;-p
The Vac pump is tolerable- most of the noise comes from the the spindle (appears to be the top mounted cooling fan). I havent measured the SPL but it is VERY loud!