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

From day 6. 6 days at the $55 day rate would be $330, but the weekly rate caps it at $300.

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

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,000 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.

Portable Concrete Mixer

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Js Equipment Rental · Concrete - Mixers

Day: $55
Week: $300
28 days: $1,000

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $330. On the week rate it is $300.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $1,265. On the 28-day rate it is $1,000.

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 Portable Concrete Mixer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$55	$55	—	day
2	$110	$110	—	day
3	$165	$165	—	day
4	$220	$220	—	day
5	$275	$275	—	day
6	$330	$300	you save $30	week
7	$385	$300	you save $85	week
8	$440	$355	you save $85	week
9	$495	$410	you save $85	week
10	$550	$465	you save $85	week
11	$605	$520	you save $85	week
12	$660	$575	you save $85	week
13	$715	$600	you save $115	week
14	$770	$600	you save $170	week
15	$825	$655	you save $170	week
16	$880	$710	you save $170	week
17	$935	$765	you save $170	week
18	$990	$820	you save $170	week
19	$1,045	$875	you save $170	week
20	$1,100	$900	you save $200	week
21	$1,155	$900	you save $255	week
22	$1,210	$955	you save $255	week
23	$1,265	$1,000	you save $265	28-day
24	$1,320	$1,000	you save $320	28-day
25	$1,375	$1,000	you save $375	28-day
26	$1,430	$1,000	you save $430	28-day
27	$1,485	$1,000	you save $485	28-day
28	$1,540	$1,000	you save $540	28-day
29	$1,595	$1,055	you save $540	day
30	$1,650	$1,110	you save $540	day
31	$1,705	$1,165	you save $540	day
32	$1,760	$1,220	you save $540	day
33	$1,815	$1,275	you save $540	day
34	$1,870	$1,300	you save $570	week
35	$1,925	$1,300	you save $625	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 · 23 days: $1,000
Rental protection (RPP): $150
Service fee: $100
Estimated total: $1,250

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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.