When is it cheaper to rent a Carpet power stretcher by the week than by the day?

From day 2. 2 days at the $85 day rate would be $170, but the weekly rate caps it at $155.

When is it cheaper to rent a Carpet power stretcher on the 28-day rate?

From day 9. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $300 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.

Carpet power stretcher

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Phillip Warner

Day: $85
Week: $155
28 days: $300

Daily stops winning on

day 2

2 days at the day rate would be $170. On the week rate it is $155.

Weekly stops winning on

day 9

9 days at the day rate would be $765. On the 28-day rate it is $300.

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 Carpet power stretcher, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$85	$85	—	day
2	$170	$155	you save $15	week
3	$255	$155	you save $100	week
4	$340	$155	you save $185	week
5	$425	$155	you save $270	week
6	$510	$155	you save $355	week
7	$595	$155	you save $440	week
8	$680	$240	you save $440	week
9	$765	$300	you save $465	28-day
10	$850	$300	you save $550	28-day
11	$935	$300	you save $635	28-day
12	$1,020	$300	you save $720	28-day
13	$1,105	$300	you save $805	28-day
14	$1,190	$300	you save $890	28-day
15	$1,275	$300	you save $975	28-day
16	$1,360	$300	you save $1,060	28-day
17	$1,445	$300	you save $1,145	28-day
18	$1,530	$300	you save $1,230	28-day
19	$1,615	$300	you save $1,315	28-day
20	$1,700	$300	you save $1,400	28-day
21	$1,785	$300	you save $1,485	28-day
22	$1,870	$300	you save $1,570	28-day
23	$1,955	$300	you save $1,655	28-day
24	$2,040	$300	you save $1,740	28-day
25	$2,125	$300	you save $1,825	28-day
26	$2,210	$300	you save $1,910	28-day
27	$2,295	$300	you save $1,995	28-day
28	$2,380	$300	you save $2,080	28-day
29	$2,465	$385	you save $2,080	day
30	$2,550	$455	you save $2,095	week
31	$2,635	$455	you save $2,180	week
32	$2,720	$455	you save $2,265	week
33	$2,805	$455	you save $2,350	week
34	$2,890	$455	you save $2,435	week
35	$2,975	$455	you save $2,520	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.