When is it cheaper to rent a Dewalt Drill by the week than by the day?

From day 2. 2 days at the $40 day rate would be $80, but the weekly rate caps it at $50.

When is it cheaper to rent a Dewalt Drill on the 28-day rate?

From day 8. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $80 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.

Dewalt Drill

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Agustin Hernandez · Drills - Dowel Drills

Day: $40
Week: $50
28 days: $80

Daily stops winning on

day 2

2 days at the day rate would be $80. On the week rate it is $50.

Weekly stops winning on

day 8

8 days at the day rate would be $320. On the 28-day rate it is $80.

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 Dewalt Drill, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$40	$40	—	day
2	$80	$50	you save $30	week
3	$120	$50	you save $70	week
4	$160	$50	you save $110	week
5	$200	$50	you save $150	week
6	$240	$50	you save $190	week
7	$280	$50	you save $230	week
8	$320	$80	you save $240	28-day
9	$360	$80	you save $280	28-day
10	$400	$80	you save $320	28-day
11	$440	$80	you save $360	28-day
12	$480	$80	you save $400	28-day
13	$520	$80	you save $440	28-day
14	$560	$80	you save $480	28-day
15	$600	$80	you save $520	28-day
16	$640	$80	you save $560	28-day
17	$680	$80	you save $600	28-day
18	$720	$80	you save $640	28-day
19	$760	$80	you save $680	28-day
20	$800	$80	you save $720	28-day
21	$840	$80	you save $760	28-day
22	$880	$80	you save $800	28-day
23	$920	$80	you save $840	28-day
24	$960	$80	you save $880	28-day
25	$1,000	$80	you save $920	28-day
26	$1,040	$80	you save $960	28-day
27	$1,080	$80	you save $1,000	28-day
28	$1,120	$80	you save $1,040	28-day
29	$1,160	$120	you save $1,040	day
30	$1,200	$130	you save $1,070	week
31	$1,240	$130	you save $1,110	week
32	$1,280	$130	you save $1,150	week
33	$1,320	$130	you save $1,190	week
34	$1,360	$130	you save $1,230	week
35	$1,400	$130	you save $1,270	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 · 8 days: $80
Rental protection (RPP): $12
Service fee: $8
Estimated total: $100

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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.