When is it cheaper to rent a Blue Dri dehumidifier by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $50 day rate would be $300, but the weekly rate caps it at $275.

When is it cheaper to rent a Blue Dri dehumidifier on the 28-day rate?

From day 25. 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.

Blue Dri dehumidifier

See the listing →

Brian flowers · Dehumidifiers - Desiccant

Day: $50
Week: $275
28 days: $1,000

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $300. On the week rate it is $275.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $1,250. 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 Blue Dri dehumidifier, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$50	$50	—	day
2	$100	$100	—	day
3	$150	$150	—	day
4	$200	$200	—	day
5	$250	$250	—	day
6	$300	$275	you save $25	week
7	$350	$275	you save $75	week
8	$400	$325	you save $75	week
9	$450	$375	you save $75	week
10	$500	$425	you save $75	week
11	$550	$475	you save $75	week
12	$600	$525	you save $75	week
13	$650	$550	you save $100	week
14	$700	$550	you save $150	week
15	$750	$600	you save $150	week
16	$800	$650	you save $150	week
17	$850	$700	you save $150	week
18	$900	$750	you save $150	week
19	$950	$800	you save $150	week
20	$1,000	$825	you save $175	week
21	$1,050	$825	you save $225	week
22	$1,100	$875	you save $225	week
23	$1,150	$925	you save $225	week
24	$1,200	$975	you save $225	week
25	$1,250	$1,000	you save $250	28-day
26	$1,300	$1,000	you save $300	28-day
27	$1,350	$1,000	you save $350	28-day
28	$1,400	$1,000	you save $400	28-day
29	$1,450	$1,050	you save $400	day
30	$1,500	$1,100	you save $400	day
31	$1,550	$1,150	you save $400	day
32	$1,600	$1,200	you save $400	day
33	$1,650	$1,250	you save $400	day
34	$1,700	$1,275	you save $425	week
35	$1,750	$1,275	you save $475	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.

Pick a listing

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.