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

From day 5. 5 days at the $300 day rate would be $1,500, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,450.

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

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $3,800 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.

Concrete Breaker

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Alexis Deleon · Concrete - Breakers

Day: $300
Week: $1,450
28 days: $3,800

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $1,500. On the week rate it is $1,450.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $5,100. On the 28-day rate it is $3,800.

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 Concrete Breaker, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$300	$300	—	day
2	$600	$600	—	day
3	$900	$900	—	day
4	$1,200	$1,200	—	day
5	$1,500	$1,450	you save $50	week
6	$1,800	$1,450	you save $350	week
7	$2,100	$1,450	you save $650	week
8	$2,400	$1,750	you save $650	week
9	$2,700	$2,050	you save $650	week
10	$3,000	$2,350	you save $650	week
11	$3,300	$2,650	you save $650	week
12	$3,600	$2,900	you save $700	week
13	$3,900	$2,900	you save $1,000	week
14	$4,200	$2,900	you save $1,300	week
15	$4,500	$3,200	you save $1,300	week
16	$4,800	$3,500	you save $1,300	week
17	$5,100	$3,800	you save $1,300	28-day
18	$5,400	$3,800	you save $1,600	28-day
19	$5,700	$3,800	you save $1,900	28-day
20	$6,000	$3,800	you save $2,200	28-day
21	$6,300	$3,800	you save $2,500	28-day
22	$6,600	$3,800	you save $2,800	28-day
23	$6,900	$3,800	you save $3,100	28-day
24	$7,200	$3,800	you save $3,400	28-day
25	$7,500	$3,800	you save $3,700	28-day
26	$7,800	$3,800	you save $4,000	28-day
27	$8,100	$3,800	you save $4,300	28-day
28	$8,400	$3,800	you save $4,600	28-day
29	$8,700	$4,100	you save $4,600	day
30	$9,000	$4,400	you save $4,600	day
31	$9,300	$4,700	you save $4,600	day
32	$9,600	$5,000	you save $4,600	day
33	$9,900	$5,250	you save $4,650	week
34	$10,200	$5,250	you save $4,950	week
35	$10,500	$5,250	you save $5,250	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.