When is it cheaper to rent a Aluminum scaffolding by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $70 day rate would be $490, but the weekly rate caps it at $420.

When is it cheaper to rent a Aluminum scaffolding on the 28-day rate?

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,500 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.

Aluminum scaffolding

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Grant King · Scaffolding - Part - Caster

Day: $70
Week: $420
28 days: $1,500

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $490. On the week rate it is $420.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $1,750. On the 28-day rate it is $1,500.

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 Aluminum scaffolding, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$70	$70	—	day
2	$140	$140	—	day
3	$210	$210	—	day
4	$280	$280	—	day
5	$350	$350	—	day
6	$420	$420	—	day
7	$490	$420	you save $70	week
8	$560	$490	you save $70	week
9	$630	$560	you save $70	week
10	$700	$630	you save $70	week
11	$770	$700	you save $70	week
12	$840	$770	you save $70	week
13	$910	$840	you save $70	week
14	$980	$840	you save $140	week
15	$1,050	$910	you save $140	week
16	$1,120	$980	you save $140	week
17	$1,190	$1,050	you save $140	week
18	$1,260	$1,120	you save $140	week
19	$1,330	$1,190	you save $140	week
20	$1,400	$1,260	you save $140	week
21	$1,470	$1,260	you save $210	week
22	$1,540	$1,330	you save $210	week
23	$1,610	$1,400	you save $210	week
24	$1,680	$1,470	you save $210	week
25	$1,750	$1,500	you save $250	28-day
26	$1,820	$1,500	you save $320	28-day
27	$1,890	$1,500	you save $390	28-day
28	$1,960	$1,500	you save $460	28-day
29	$2,030	$1,570	you save $460	day
30	$2,100	$1,640	you save $460	day
31	$2,170	$1,710	you save $460	day
32	$2,240	$1,780	you save $460	day
33	$2,310	$1,850	you save $460	day
34	$2,380	$1,920	you save $460	day
35	$2,450	$1,920	you save $530	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.

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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.