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

From day 4. 4 days at the $22 day rate would be $88, but the weekly rate caps it at $85.

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

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $298 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.

Scaffolding

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Nathan Gross · Scaffolding - Part - Frame

Day: $22
Week: $85
28 days: $298

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $88. On the week rate it is $85.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $506. On the 28-day rate it is $298.

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 Scaffolding, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$22	$22	—	day
2	$44	$44	—	day
3	$66	$66	—	day
4	$88	$85	you save $3	week
5	$110	$85	you save $25	week
6	$132	$85	you save $47	week
7	$154	$85	you save $69	week
8	$176	$107	you save $69	week
9	$198	$129	you save $69	week
10	$220	$151	you save $69	week
11	$242	$170	you save $72	week
12	$264	$170	you save $94	week
13	$286	$170	you save $116	week
14	$308	$170	you save $138	week
15	$330	$192	you save $138	week
16	$352	$214	you save $138	week
17	$374	$236	you save $138	week
18	$396	$255	you save $141	week
19	$418	$255	you save $163	week
20	$440	$255	you save $185	week
21	$462	$255	you save $207	week
22	$484	$277	you save $207	week
23	$506	$298	you save $208	28-day
24	$528	$298	you save $230	28-day
25	$550	$298	you save $252	28-day
26	$572	$298	you save $274	28-day
27	$594	$298	you save $296	28-day
28	$616	$298	you save $318	28-day
29	$638	$320	you save $318	day
30	$660	$342	you save $318	day
31	$682	$364	you save $318	day
32	$704	$383	you save $321	week
33	$726	$383	you save $343	week
34	$748	$383	you save $365	week
35	$770	$383	you save $387	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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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.