The basement is the location of what we refer to as the "mechanicals"; The mechanicals are the plumbing, heating and air conditioning (HVAC), and electrical systems that enable your home to function properly. They include such things as your furnace, water heater and sump pump.

These items often times have large "foot prints" in that they take up a lot of floor space. In addition, as with the issue of the bath, the mechanicals are often times not located in a logical area of your floor space in order to maximize your basement's living area. They become major obstacles to the logical flow of a lower level design.

Unbeknownst to most people, the mechanicals can also be relocated. At Sovereign, this option will be pursued to the extent necessary and possible. Again this is not always an easy task as pipes, vents and plumbing may need to be re-routed. Yet the benefit is that it can open up what was before unusable floor space.

Rather than having what is essentially a large closet in the middle of your floor plan to hide your mechanicals, relocating them, affords you greater open space with your mechanicals tucked neatly away in a corner.