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

From day 5. 5 days at the $60 day rate would be $300, but the weekly rate caps it at $250.

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

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $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.

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Christopher · Paint - Sprayers

Day: $60
Week: $250
28 days: $800

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $300. On the week rate it is $250.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $1,320. On the 28-day rate it is $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 paint sprayer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$60	$60	—	day
2	$120	$120	—	day
3	$180	$180	—	day
4	$240	$240	—	day
5	$300	$250	you save $50	week
6	$360	$250	you save $110	week
7	$420	$250	you save $170	week
8	$480	$310	you save $170	week
9	$540	$370	you save $170	week
10	$600	$430	you save $170	week
11	$660	$490	you save $170	week
12	$720	$500	you save $220	week
13	$780	$500	you save $280	week
14	$840	$500	you save $340	week
15	$900	$560	you save $340	week
16	$960	$620	you save $340	week
17	$1,020	$680	you save $340	week
18	$1,080	$740	you save $340	week
19	$1,140	$750	you save $390	week
20	$1,200	$750	you save $450	week
21	$1,260	$750	you save $510	week
22	$1,320	$800	you save $520	28-day
23	$1,380	$800	you save $580	28-day
24	$1,440	$800	you save $640	28-day
25	$1,500	$800	you save $700	28-day
26	$1,560	$800	you save $760	28-day
27	$1,620	$800	you save $820	28-day
28	$1,680	$800	you save $880	28-day
29	$1,740	$860	you save $880	day
30	$1,800	$920	you save $880	day
31	$1,860	$980	you save $880	day
32	$1,920	$1,040	you save $880	day
33	$1,980	$1,050	you save $930	week
34	$2,040	$1,050	you save $990	week
35	$2,100	$1,050	you save $1,050	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 · 22 days: $800
Rental protection (RPP): $120
Service fee: $80
Estimated total: $1,000

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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.