When is it cheaper to rent a JobSmart 20 Gallon Wet/Dry Sand Blaster by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $21 day rate would be $63, but the weekly rate caps it at $51.

When is it cheaper to rent a JobSmart 20 Gallon Wet/Dry Sand Blaster on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $189 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Equipment rents on three rates — a day rate, a week rate and a 28-day rate — and the cheapest one changes as the job runs long. This finds the two days where it changes, on a real listing’s real published rates.

JobSmart 20 Gallon Wet/Dry Sand Blaster

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Greenscapes Landscaping and Equipment Rentals · Air Tools - Sand Blasters

Day: $21
Week: $51
28 days: $189

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $63. On the week rate it is $51.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $483. On the 28-day rate it is $189.

The working

Whole weeks bill at the week rate; the leftover days bill at the day rate but never add up to more than one extra week; and a whole 28-day cycle never costs more than the 28-day rate. That is the rule, applied one day at a time.

Rental price by duration for JobSmart 20 Gallon Wet/Dry Sand Blaster, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$21	$21	—	day
2	$42	$42	—	day
3	$63	$51	you save $12	week
4	$84	$51	you save $33	week
5	$105	$51	you save $54	week
6	$126	$51	you save $75	week
7	$147	$51	you save $96	week
8	$168	$72	you save $96	week
9	$189	$93	you save $96	week
10	$210	$102	you save $108	week
11	$231	$102	you save $129	week
12	$252	$102	you save $150	week
13	$273	$102	you save $171	week
14	$294	$102	you save $192	week
15	$315	$123	you save $192	week
16	$336	$144	you save $192	week
17	$357	$153	you save $204	week
18	$378	$153	you save $225	week
19	$399	$153	you save $246	week
20	$420	$153	you save $267	week
21	$441	$153	you save $288	week
22	$462	$174	you save $288	week
23	$483	$189	you save $294	28-day
24	$504	$189	you save $315	28-day
25	$525	$189	you save $336	28-day
26	$546	$189	you save $357	28-day
27	$567	$189	you save $378	28-day
28	$588	$189	you save $399	28-day
29	$609	$210	you save $399	day
30	$630	$231	you save $399	day
31	$651	$240	you save $411	week
32	$672	$240	you save $432	week
33	$693	$240	you save $453	week
34	$714	$240	you save $474	week
35	$735	$240	you save $495	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Our pricing service couldn’t be reached just now, so there’s no checkout figure to show. The rate table above is unaffected — it’s the operator’s published card.

Pick a listing

The numbers come from one operator’s published rates, so the tool needs to know whose.

Where these numbers come from

The rates are the operator’s own, read live from their listing. The arithmetic is the same best-price billing engine that produces 2Quip invoices — not a second copy written for this page — run on the industry-standard terms: a 28-day cycle, whole weeks at the week rate, leftover days at the day rate capped at one more week.

An operator can agree different terms on an individual rental, and a long rental bills per 28-day cycle rather than in one lump. So treat this as what the rate card says, and the operator’s quote as what you are agreeing to.