You most likely have a mix of fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, possibly rye, and some weeds.

I would water that with an oscillator sprinkler that has an adjustable spread on it. Set it up to be in the center of the lawn and sweep from phone box by the road to the other end. It will take hours and hours to get deep watering done, but deep is deep. My oscillator takes 8 hours to put out an inch. You may only have to water once every 2-3 weeks when you do it that deep.

When you renovate, do you want to kill everything that's there? That's about the only way to make a pure KBG lawn. Here's the general nature of how that goes. Change to daily watering for only 5 minutes, but 3x per day. The idea is to germinate all the weed seeds. Do that for a week and spray with Round Up, Grass-b-Gon, or whatever plant killer you are allowed to use. Then continue watering 3x per day for another week to get the slow sprouting weeds. Spray again to get that stuff. Let that all die for a week, rake up the dead stuff, level the surface the way you want it, scatter seed, roll the seed down (or for 1,000 square feet just walk on it to press the seed down onto the soil). Then continue watering 3x per day same as before to sprout the grass seed. KBG seed takes about 3 weeks to get 80% germination. With the prep and Round UP, you should not get any weeds in this lawn. Do this as early as you can in the fall so you have time to redo any spots that came out thin. KBG will spread to fill, but not much the first year. When it gets up to 5 inches tall, mow it down to 4 inches or whatever the mower's highest setting is.

With all that in mind, are you up to that much of a project? Raking it up is the only hard part.

If you are not allowed to use herbicides, you might need to have a landscaper come in with a tractor and a box blade to scrape the surface off. That will leave the perfect surface for new seed.

There's no way there's crabgrass in zone 5a right now. Hard to say without a close up picture, but it looks like clumps of fescue to me. Doesn't really matter anyway if you're going to renovate.

snowbob11 No, these photos are from back in early Nov, I actually had a chat with Drew over at seed superstore in the fall. I will go to him to get my seed when time is right. I go to Buffalo quite often so going straight to his warehouse is not an issue to me. As j4c11 said, and I learned this from these forums. Crabgrass can't take any type of cold at all. I conferred with my lawn guy that I'm hiring just to spray weeds this summer and he says quack grass. With this most likely being a mix of KGB/Rye/Fescue perhaps I just end up going with massively overseeing in the early fall with that mix instead of ripping it all up and starting new

Do a full renovation if you're going to go through the trouble. You'll regret it if you don't.

I can tell you with a fair amount of certainty that is not quack grass. If your lawn company says it is they are wrong.

Also do yourself a favor and don't pay a lawn company to spray your weeds this spring/summer. You don't have to rip it all out, just spray with round-up and start new with a full renovation. Much easier and you will get much better results. That's what I would recommend to you.

If you're interested in getting a lush lawn with less work and less chemicals, this article on lawncare is a goldmine of information. The main thing is to mow high, like 3 inches.