When is it cheaper to rent a Drywall jack by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $20 day rate would be $140, but the weekly rate caps it at $130.

When is it cheaper to rent a Drywall jack on the 28-day rate?

From day 24. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $450 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.

Drywall jack

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Stephen Price · Drywall Loaders

Day: $20
Week: $130
28 days: $450

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $140. On the week rate it is $130.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $480. On the 28-day rate it is $450.

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 Drywall jack, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$20	$20	—	day
2	$40	$40	—	day
3	$60	$60	—	day
4	$80	$80	—	day
5	$100	$100	—	day
6	$120	$120	—	day
7	$140	$130	you save $10	week
8	$160	$150	you save $10	week
9	$180	$170	you save $10	week
10	$200	$190	you save $10	week
11	$220	$210	you save $10	week
12	$240	$230	you save $10	week
13	$260	$250	you save $10	week
14	$280	$260	you save $20	week
15	$300	$280	you save $20	week
16	$320	$300	you save $20	week
17	$340	$320	you save $20	week
18	$360	$340	you save $20	week
19	$380	$360	you save $20	week
20	$400	$380	you save $20	week
21	$420	$390	you save $30	week
22	$440	$410	you save $30	week
23	$460	$430	you save $30	week
24	$480	$450	you save $30	28-day
25	$500	$450	you save $50	28-day
26	$520	$450	you save $70	28-day
27	$540	$450	you save $90	28-day
28	$560	$450	you save $110	28-day
29	$580	$470	you save $110	day
30	$600	$490	you save $110	day
31	$620	$510	you save $110	day
32	$640	$530	you save $110	day
33	$660	$550	you save $110	day
34	$680	$570	you save $110	day
35	$700	$580	you save $120	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 · 24 days: $450
Rental protection (RPP): $67.50
Service fee: $45
Estimated total: $562.50

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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.