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.

Chainsaw

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Ben Engelkens · Chain Saws

Day
$50
Week
$320
28 days
$1,200

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $350. On the week rate it is $320.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $1,300. On the 28-day rate it is $1,200.

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 Chainsaw, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$50$50—day
2$100$100—day
3$150$150—day
4$200$200—day
5$250$250—day
6$300$300—day
7$350$320you save $30week
8$400$370you save $30week
9$450$420you save $30week
10$500$470you save $30week
11$550$520you save $30week
12$600$570you save $30week
13$650$620you save $30week
14$700$640you save $60week
15$750$690you save $60week
16$800$740you save $60week
17$850$790you save $60week
18$900$840you save $60week
19$950$890you save $60week
20$1,000$940you save $60week
21$1,050$960you save $90week
22$1,100$1,010you save $90week
23$1,150$1,060you save $90week
24$1,200$1,110you save $90week
25$1,250$1,160you save $90week
26$1,300$1,200you save $10028-day
27$1,350$1,200you save $15028-day
28$1,400$1,200you save $20028-day
29$1,450$1,250you save $200day
30$1,500$1,300you save $200day
31$1,550$1,350you save $200day
32$1,600$1,400you save $200day
33$1,650$1,450you save $200day
34$1,700$1,500you save $200day
35$1,750$1,520you save $230week

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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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.