When is it cheaper to rent a 1 HP 4 in. x 6 in. Horizontal/Vertical Metal Band Saw by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $30 day rate would be $120, but the weekly rate caps it at $90.

When is it cheaper to rent a 1 HP 4 in. x 6 in. Horizontal/Vertical Metal Band Saw on the 28-day rate?

From day 15. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $185 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.

1 HP 4 in. x 6 in. Horizontal/Vertical Metal Band Saw

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Ahmed Showman · Saws - Table Saws

Day: $30
Week: $90
28 days: $185

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $120. On the week rate it is $90.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $450. On the 28-day rate it is $185.

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 1 HP 4 in. x 6 in. Horizontal/Vertical Metal Band Saw, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$30	$30	—	day
2	$60	$60	—	day
3	$90	$90	—	day
4	$120	$90	you save $30	week
5	$150	$90	you save $60	week
6	$180	$90	you save $90	week
7	$210	$90	you save $120	week
8	$240	$120	you save $120	week
9	$270	$150	you save $120	week
10	$300	$180	you save $120	week
11	$330	$180	you save $150	week
12	$360	$180	you save $180	week
13	$390	$180	you save $210	week
14	$420	$180	you save $240	week
15	$450	$185	you save $265	28-day
16	$480	$185	you save $295	28-day
17	$510	$185	you save $325	28-day
18	$540	$185	you save $355	28-day
19	$570	$185	you save $385	28-day
20	$600	$185	you save $415	28-day
21	$630	$185	you save $445	28-day
22	$660	$185	you save $475	28-day
23	$690	$185	you save $505	28-day
24	$720	$185	you save $535	28-day
25	$750	$185	you save $565	28-day
26	$780	$185	you save $595	28-day
27	$810	$185	you save $625	28-day
28	$840	$185	you save $655	28-day
29	$870	$215	you save $655	day
30	$900	$245	you save $655	day
31	$930	$275	you save $655	day
32	$960	$275	you save $685	week
33	$990	$275	you save $715	week
34	$1,020	$275	you save $745	week
35	$1,050	$275	you save $775	week

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.