When is it cheaper to rent a High-Performance Powder-Actuated Fastening Tool on the 28-day rate?

From day 19. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $975 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a High-Performance Powder-Actuated Fastening Tool by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $65 day rate would be $390, but the weekly rate caps it at $341.

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.

High-Performance Powder-Actuated Fastening Tool

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Adam C · Concrete - Stud Guns

Day: $65
Week: $341
28 days: $975

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $390. On the week rate it is $341.

Weekly stops winning on

day 19

19 days at the day rate would be $1,235. On the 28-day rate it is $975.

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 High-Performance Powder-Actuated Fastening Tool, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$65	$65	—	day
2	$130	$130	—	day
3	$195	$195	—	day
4	$260	$260	—	day
5	$325	$325	—	day
6	$390	$341	you save $49	week
7	$455	$341	you save $114	week
8	$520	$406	you save $114	week
9	$585	$471	you save $114	week
10	$650	$536	you save $114	week
11	$715	$601	you save $114	week
12	$780	$666	you save $114	week
13	$845	$682	you save $163	week
14	$910	$682	you save $228	week
15	$975	$747	you save $228	week
16	$1,040	$812	you save $228	week
17	$1,105	$877	you save $228	week
18	$1,170	$942	you save $228	week
19	$1,235	$975	you save $260	28-day
20	$1,300	$975	you save $325	28-day
21	$1,365	$975	you save $390	28-day
22	$1,430	$975	you save $455	28-day
23	$1,495	$975	you save $520	28-day
24	$1,560	$975	you save $585	28-day
25	$1,625	$975	you save $650	28-day
26	$1,690	$975	you save $715	28-day
27	$1,755	$975	you save $780	28-day
28	$1,820	$975	you save $845	28-day
29	$1,885	$1,040	you save $845	day
30	$1,950	$1,105	you save $845	day
31	$2,015	$1,170	you save $845	day
32	$2,080	$1,235	you save $845	day
33	$2,145	$1,300	you save $845	day
34	$2,210	$1,316	you save $894	week
35	$2,275	$1,316	you save $959	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 · 19 days: $975
Rental protection (RPP): $146.25
Service fee: $97.50
Estimated total: $1,218.75

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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.