When is it cheaper to rent a BOSTITCH 18 Gauge Brad Nailer by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $20 day rate would be $80, but the weekly rate caps it at $70.

When is it cheaper to rent a BOSTITCH 18 Gauge Brad Nailer on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $240 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.

BOSTITCH 18 Gauge Brad Nailer

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igor Ganapolsky · Air Tools - Nailers

Day: $20
Week: $70
28 days: $240

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $80. On the week rate it is $70.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $460. On the 28-day rate it is $240.

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 BOSTITCH 18 Gauge Brad Nailer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$20	$20	—	day
2	$40	$40	—	day
3	$60	$60	—	day
4	$80	$70	you save $10	week
5	$100	$70	you save $30	week
6	$120	$70	you save $50	week
7	$140	$70	you save $70	week
8	$160	$90	you save $70	week
9	$180	$110	you save $70	week
10	$200	$130	you save $70	week
11	$220	$140	you save $80	week
12	$240	$140	you save $100	week
13	$260	$140	you save $120	week
14	$280	$140	you save $140	week
15	$300	$160	you save $140	week
16	$320	$180	you save $140	week
17	$340	$200	you save $140	week
18	$360	$210	you save $150	week
19	$380	$210	you save $170	week
20	$400	$210	you save $190	week
21	$420	$210	you save $210	week
22	$440	$230	you save $210	week
23	$460	$240	you save $220	28-day
24	$480	$240	you save $240	28-day
25	$500	$240	you save $260	28-day
26	$520	$240	you save $280	28-day
27	$540	$240	you save $300	28-day
28	$560	$240	you save $320	28-day
29	$580	$260	you save $320	day
30	$600	$280	you save $320	day
31	$620	$300	you save $320	day
32	$640	$310	you save $330	week
33	$660	$310	you save $350	week
34	$680	$310	you save $370	week
35	$700	$310	you save $390	week

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

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 23 days: $240
Rental protection (RPP): $36
Service fee: $24
Estimated total: $300

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.