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Evenings + Weekends · Why Brick City Labor Books When You Are Home
You should not have to take a half-day off work to get your driveway pressure-washed. Our calendar runs evenings and weekends so you can be home when the crew shows up.
Brian Zalewski ·
If you have ever tried to book a Newark crew, you have run into the 9-to-5 problem. The window the crew can come is the same window you have to be at work. You get the job done by leaving a key in a lockbox and crossing your fingers — or you take half a day off and pay double for the privilege. We picked a different schedule.
The schedule
- Weekdays — 5pm to 9pm. After-work bookings, two-hour driveway washes, gutter clears, single-room hauls. You get home, the crew is there or already finishing.
- Saturday — 8am to 8pm. The big-job day. Move-out cleanouts, multi-yard lawn work, full property prep. Eight working hours plus daylight to spare.
- Sunday — 9am to 4pm. Lighter day. Single-service jobs, follow-ups, quick repairs. Closed by mid-afternoon for the customers who do not want a Sunday-evening saw running.
Daytime weekday slots are available for landlords, property managers, and customers who specifically request them — usually for vacant-unit cleanouts where nobody needs to be home. The booking widget shows the live calendar and only offers slots we can actually fill.
Why "be home for the work" matters
Three reasons it changes the job:
- You catch the surprises while the crew is still there. "Wait, that gutter has a section I forgot to mention" — fixed in the same visit. With a 9-to-5 crew you find it Saturday morning and have to re-book.
- You see what was actually done. Power-washing photos look the same in every "before/after" social post. Standing on the driveway and watching the surface cleaner pass changes what "clean" means to you forever.
- The crew gets feedback in real time. A two-second "can we get the side patio while you are out there?" turns a $150 job into a $200 job and saves a second visit. The math compounds in your favor.
What we will not do, even on the off-hours
No string-trimmer at 8pm in a row-house neighborhood. No power washer running past sunset. We respect the noise rules — yours and the city's — even if a customer would technically pay for it.
Newark's residential noise ordinance caps construction-grade equipment around 8pm. We stop louder gear at 7:30pm to be safe and finish quieter work — hand-tool repairs, hauling, light cleanup — by 9pm. Saturdays we run loud gear from 8am to 7pm, never before or after. Sundays we keep the volume low all day. City of Newark rules apply to the whole crew, every job.
Why we picked this schedule
Brick City Labor started as the side hustle of a Newark homeowner who could not find a crew that worked when he was home. So we built the schedule we wanted to hire. Casual labor is the right shape for evenings-and-weekends — flat rate, owner-on-site, real insurance, no project-manager overhead. It also means the work fits around your life instead of demanding you fit around it.
Same flat rate after dark
The only thing the schedule changes is when we show up. The rate stays $50/hr per person, flat, no after-hours surcharge, no weekend bump, no premium-window pricing. Pick the slot that works, see the total, lock it. We will be there with the gear when you get home.
How to book a 6pm Tuesday or a 2pm Saturday
Open the booking widget, scroll to the time you want, pick the crew size, hit the button. If the slot is on the calendar, it is yours. We confirm by text within ten minutes and remind the morning of. If the time you want is not there, the calendar is full — pick the next one. We stay on the schedule we publish.
