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.

Electric Jack hammer

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Zachary Reichelt · Electric Tools

Day
$100
Week
$220
28 days
$640

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $300. On the week rate it is $220.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $1,600. On the 28-day rate it is $640.

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 Electric Jack hammer, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$100$100—day
2$200$200—day
3$300$220you save $80week
4$400$220you save $180week
5$500$220you save $280week
6$600$220you save $380week
7$700$220you save $480week
8$800$320you save $480week
9$900$420you save $480week
10$1,000$440you save $560week
11$1,100$440you save $660week
12$1,200$440you save $760week
13$1,300$440you save $860week
14$1,400$440you save $960week
15$1,500$540you save $960week
16$1,600$640you save $96028-day
17$1,700$640you save $1,06028-day
18$1,800$640you save $1,16028-day
19$1,900$640you save $1,26028-day
20$2,000$640you save $1,36028-day
21$2,100$640you save $1,46028-day
22$2,200$640you save $1,56028-day
23$2,300$640you save $1,66028-day
24$2,400$640you save $1,76028-day
25$2,500$640you save $1,86028-day
26$2,600$640you save $1,96028-day
27$2,700$640you save $2,06028-day
28$2,800$640you save $2,16028-day
29$2,900$740you save $2,160day
30$3,000$840you save $2,160day
31$3,100$860you save $2,240week
32$3,200$860you save $2,340week
33$3,300$860you save $2,440week
34$3,400$860you save $2,540week
35$3,500$860you save $2,640week

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.