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.

Extension Poles

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Peculiar Rentals

Day
$15
Week
$40
28 days
$125

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $45. On the week rate it is $40.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $330. On the 28-day rate it is $125.

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 Extension Poles, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$15$15—day
2$30$30—day
3$45$40you save $5week
4$60$40you save $20week
5$75$40you save $35week
6$90$40you save $50week
7$105$40you save $65week
8$120$55you save $65week
9$135$70you save $65week
10$150$80you save $70week
11$165$80you save $85week
12$180$80you save $100week
13$195$80you save $115week
14$210$80you save $130week
15$225$95you save $130week
16$240$110you save $130week
17$255$120you save $135week
18$270$120you save $150week
19$285$120you save $165week
20$300$120you save $180week
21$315$120you save $195week
22$330$125you save $20528-day
23$345$125you save $22028-day
24$360$125you save $23528-day
25$375$125you save $25028-day
26$390$125you save $26528-day
27$405$125you save $28028-day
28$420$125you save $29528-day
29$435$140you save $295day
30$450$155you save $295day
31$465$165you save $300week
32$480$165you save $315week
33$495$165you save $330week
34$510$165you save $345week
35$525$165you save $360week

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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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.