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.

Makita Drywall Driver

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Thad Bowman · Drywall Loaders

Day
$10
Week
$40
28 days
$120

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $50. On the week rate it is $40.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $180. On the 28-day rate it is $120.

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 Drywall Driver, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$10$10—day
2$20$20—day
3$30$30—day
4$40$40—day
5$50$40you save $10week
6$60$40you save $20week
7$70$40you save $30week
8$80$50you save $30week
9$90$60you save $30week
10$100$70you save $30week
11$110$80you save $30week
12$120$80you save $40week
13$130$80you save $50week
14$140$80you save $60week
15$150$90you save $60week
16$160$100you save $60week
17$170$110you save $60week
18$180$120you save $6028-day
19$190$120you save $7028-day
20$200$120you save $8028-day
21$210$120you save $9028-day
22$220$120you save $10028-day
23$230$120you save $11028-day
24$240$120you save $12028-day
25$250$120you save $13028-day
26$260$120you save $14028-day
27$270$120you save $15028-day
28$280$120you save $16028-day
29$290$130you save $160day
30$300$140you save $160day
31$310$150you save $160day
32$320$160you save $160day
33$330$160you save $170week
34$340$160you save $180week
35$350$160you save $190week

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.