Your Spring Protocol.
Spring is the season of restoration. The property emerges from winter, the landscape wakes up, and the Care Team assesses what the cold months left behind. The Spring Protocol is built around three things: cleaning up, waking systems back up, and setting the property on a good footing for the year ahead.
What the Care Team finds in spring shapes the entire year that follows. The Protocol begins with looking, carefully, at what winter did.
Spring
The season of restoration
After months of dormancy, the property comes back into use. Spring is when the Care Team learns what winter took, and starts the year on a foundation of clean information.
For most properties in MetroWest Boston and Cape Cod, spring arrives gradually rather than all at once. The ground thaws in stages. The first warm afternoons are followed by cold snaps and late frosts. Plants come out of dormancy in their own order — the bulbs first, then the early shrubs, then the slower trees. The Care Team visits the property multiple times during this stretch, because the property is changing week to week and one visit cannot capture all of it.
What the Care Team is doing during these visits is three things at once: completing the work that the season specifically calls for, watching the property for the slow accumulation of damage that winter sometimes leaves behind, and making the practical decisions about the year ahead — when to prune the roses, when to top-dress the lawn, when to schedule the larger Procedures that will make the most of the growing months.
The Spring Protocol is the foundation of the year's care. By the time it ends, the Chart for the property has been updated with everything the winter taught, and the next three seasons have a clear starting line.
Three things, on every property.
Restoration Rounds and the season's Procedures
Cleanup of winter debris from the entire property. Removal of remaining leaves, fallen branches, and salt residue. The first lawn visits of the year — aeration, top-dressing, and the early mowing cadence.
Spring pruning of trees and shrubs. Bed edging. Mulching. The first round of plantings, where Care Plans include them.
Reactivation of irrigation systems and exterior plumbing. Inspection and tune-up of cooling systems before they will be needed. Exterior cleaning where the Plan calls for it — power washing, gutter clearing, window care.
What winter sometimes leaves behind
Damage from ice and snow load — to roofs, gutters, fences, hardscape. Cracks from the freeze-thaw cycle. Heaving in walkways and foundations.
Salt damage to plantings near the driveway and walkways. Winter kill in shrubs that did not survive the cold. Compaction in the lawn where snow piled up for months.
Signs of moisture intrusion that became visible only as the property dried out — water stains, mildew, soft spots in wood. The first opportunity to see what the heating system did to the indoor air all winter.
The growing months ahead
The Summer Protocol begins where the Spring Protocol ends. Decisions made now — which Procedures to schedule, which plantings to commit to, which mechanical work to plan around — define the entire summer cadence.
Larger Procedures that need warm weather are scheduled now: exterior painting, hardscape work, design-build projects in the landscape. The Care Team builds the calendar so they happen in the right order through summer.
The annual review of the Care Plan, for members whose anniversary falls in spring, happens in this stretch — an opportunity to update the Plan around what the past year taught and what the year ahead is meant to look like.
A spring done well is felt in July, in October, and in February. A spring rushed is paid for all year.
The temptation, after a long winter, is to skip the quiet diagnostic work and get straight to the visible things — the mowing, the planting, the obvious cleanup. CuraHaus is built to resist that temptation. The Care Team takes the time to walk the property carefully, photograph what it finds, and update the Chart with the winter's accumulated effects before the year's faster work begins. That patience is what allows the next three Protocols to operate smoothly, because nothing important has been missed at the start.
By the end of May, the property is restored, the Chart is current, the calendar of Procedures is set, and the Care Team and the member share a clear picture of the year ahead. That is what the Spring Protocol is built to deliver.
Begin Intake. Spring begins from there.
Intake is the first step. From there, an Assessment, your Care Plan, and the Spring Protocol written for your property.