Soft Season Climate Group · Hospitality heating & cooling · Bellhaven

The climate your guests never think about — that is the product.

Boutiques, cafés, apartments and the houses that host them: whisper-rated equipment, heat-recovery ventilation you cannot hear, and a concierge desk that treats a cold dining room at 6 p.m. as the emergency it is — because on a Friday, it is.

SERVICE HOURS ARE YOUR OPENING HOURS: the concierge desk answers from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days, and after-hours emergency cover is written into every hospitality contract — a quiet dining room is not a Monday problem.

What we do

The concierge standard

Quiet equipment, honestly rated

Quiet equipment, honestly rated

Decibels printed beside the efficiency figures on every quote: whisper-rated heat pumps for the guest rooms, curbed and isolated compressors for the courtyard, and the hotel-grade units whose spec sheet matches what a full house actually sounds like at midnight.

Air that is part of the interior

Balanced heat-recovery ventilation hidden in the build: fresh air that arrives at room temperature, humidity held where the wine and the guests both prefer it, and registers placed so the draft is never part of the review.

Air that is part of the interior
One desk, every property

One desk, every property

A named concierge for each account — the café on Piermont Hill and its two apartments, the Marigold boutique and its stockroom — who knows the systems, holds the commissioning files, and answers before the second ring.

140
hospitality properties under care
6–11
concierge hours, seven days
41 dB
typical install at one metre
9 yr
average property relationship
Our reviews used to mention the cold corner table. Soft Season rebalanced the dining room around the 4 p.m. sun, moved one register, and the corner table books first now. No new equipment — a design, and the will to measure.
Camille Ferey · Corner café, Piermont Hill
Six apartments above the bakery, one ancient boiler, three companies with opinions. Their concierge read the commissioning file, fixed the circulation schedule, and the top floor stopped being the complaint floor in a single afternoon.
H. Marchetti-Blau · Marigold Quarter walk-up, owner
The boutique’s stockroom held 61% humidity all summer — silk does not forgive. The HRV balance they commissioned holds 48 through a heat wave, and the invoice was half the number I had braced for.
Odile Renard · Boutique, Bellhaven

The contracts

Care plans, priced like a menu

Three levels, monthly figures, and a concierge who stays the same whatever you choose. Cancel any month; the files remain yours.

Weekday

$38/mo

  • Two precision visits a year
  • Concierge desk, business hours
  • Member rate on repairs

For the apartment and the small office.

Most chosen

Full House

$74/mo

  • Everything in Weekday
  • 6 a.m.–11 p.m. desk, seven days
  • After-hours emergency cover included
  • Pre-season visits before peaks
  • Humidity & filtration oversight

The plan the Piermont Hill café and nine Marigold accounts are on.

Portfolio

from $58/mo per property

  • Everything in Full House
  • Named concierge across properties
  • Quarterly air-quality report
  • Capex planning with real numbers

For the owner of several buildings and one phone.

The look book

Rooms that hold their temper

Curbed and isolated
Curbed and isolated — the courtyard suite
The fan the guests have never heard
The fan the guests have never heard
Radiant zones for the stone floors, Bellhaven
Radiant zones for the stone floors, Bellhaven
Manifold, labelled like a wine list
Manifold, labelled like a wine list
Walkthrough morning with the concierge
Walkthrough morning with the concierge
The head nobody photographs
The head nobody photographs — that is the point

The concierge path

From walkthrough to quiet season

Four visits, scheduled around your hours — a hospitality project that interrupts service has already failed part of its brief.

1

The walkthrough

Rooms measured, sound levels taken, humidity logged — before opening or after close, whichever the floor manager prefers.

2

The design brief

Manual J for the building, decibel targets per room, ventilation strategy — written as a document with prices beside the paragraphs.

3

The quiet install

Staged around service hours, equipment curbed and isolated, every register placed where the design says people actually sit.

4

The season of proof

Return visits at the first heat wave and the first cold snap, sensors re-logged, and the numbers filed against the brief’s promises.

Asked over the counter

Do you work around service hours?

That is most of the craft. Installs stage early mornings or closed days; noisy work is front-loaded; the dining room never hosts a reciprocating saw during service. The schedule is agreed with the floor manager before anything is ordered.

Can you quiet an existing system?

Often dramatically. Vibration isolation, curbing, blower-curve adjustments and a re-balanced duct can remove most of the noise a system makes — and a sound measurement before and after tells you exactly how much, in decibels rather than adjectives.

What does the humidity oversight include?

Logging through the seasons that matter to your stock — silk, paper, instruments, wine — with alerts when a room drifts out of the band the brief set. The boutique that holds 48% through a heat wave does not do it by luck.

Residential, or only businesses?

Both, deliberately. The houses we take are the ones that host — the Bellhaven homes with guest wings, the Piermont apartments above the shops — because the standard is the same: comfort the guests never have to think about.

What happens in an after-hours emergency?

Full House and Portfolio contracts carry written after-hours cover: a cold dining room at 6 p.m. Friday is treated as the emergency it commercially is. The desk answers until 11 p.m., and the on-call tech holds your commissioning file.

Invite the concierge round.

Tell us the property and the hour it misbehaves. Walkthroughs are scheduled around your service, not ours.