Break-even duration

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a Makita SDS Plus Concrete/Masonry AVT Rotary Hammer Drill by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $40.80 day rate would be $204, but the weekly rate caps it at $174.

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a Makita SDS Plus Concrete/Masonry AVT Rotary Hammer Drill on the 28-day rate?

From day 19. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $522 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

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.

Makita SDS Plus Concrete/Masonry AVT Rotary Hammer Drill

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Cullen Donaldson · Drills - Electric

Day: $40.80
Week: $174
28 days: $522

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $204. On the week rate it is $174.

Weekly stops winning on

day 19

19 days at the day rate would be $775.20. On the 28-day rate it is $522.

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 Makita SDS Plus Concrete/Masonry AVT Rotary Hammer Drill, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$40.80	$40.80	—	day
2	$81.60	$81.60	—	day
3	$122.40	$122.40	—	day
4	$163.20	$163.20	—	day
5	$204	$174	you save $30	week
6	$244.80	$174	you save $70.80	week
7	$285.60	$174	you save $111.60	week
8	$326.40	$214.80	you save $111.60	week
9	$367.20	$255.60	you save $111.60	week
10	$408	$296.40	you save $111.60	week
11	$448.80	$337.20	you save $111.60	week
12	$489.60	$348	you save $141.60	week
13	$530.40	$348	you save $182.40	week
14	$571.20	$348	you save $223.20	week
15	$612	$388.80	you save $223.20	week
16	$652.80	$429.60	you save $223.20	week
17	$693.60	$470.40	you save $223.20	week
18	$734.40	$511.20	you save $223.20	week
19	$775.20	$522	you save $253.20	28-day
20	$816	$522	you save $294	28-day
21	$856.80	$522	you save $334.80	28-day
22	$897.60	$522	you save $375.60	28-day
23	$938.40	$522	you save $416.40	28-day
24	$979.20	$522	you save $457.20	28-day
25	$1,020	$522	you save $498	28-day
26	$1,060.80	$522	you save $538.80	28-day
27	$1,101.60	$522	you save $579.60	28-day
28	$1,142.40	$522	you save $620.40	28-day
29	$1,183.20	$562.80	you save $620.40	day
30	$1,224	$603.60	you save $620.40	day
31	$1,264.80	$644.40	you save $620.40	day
32	$1,305.60	$685.20	you save $620.40	day
33	$1,346.40	$696	you save $650.40	week
34	$1,387.20	$696	you save $691.20	week
35	$1,428	$696	you save $732	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 · 19 days: $522
Rental protection (RPP): $78.30
Service fee: $52.20
Estimated total: $652.50

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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.