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 Metal Folding Sawhorse

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Mostafa Bekheet

Day
$5
Week
$18
28 days
$53

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $20. On the week rate it is $18.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $90. On the 28-day rate it is $53.

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 Metal Folding Sawhorse, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$5$5—day
2$10$10—day
3$15$15—day
4$20$18you save $2week
5$25$18you save $7week
6$30$18you save $12week
7$35$18you save $17week
8$40$23you save $17week
9$45$28you save $17week
10$50$33you save $17week
11$55$36you save $19week
12$60$36you save $24week
13$65$36you save $29week
14$70$36you save $34week
15$75$41you save $34week
16$80$46you save $34week
17$85$51you save $34week
18$90$53you save $3728-day
19$95$53you save $4228-day
20$100$53you save $4728-day
21$105$53you save $5228-day
22$110$53you save $5728-day
23$115$53you save $6228-day
24$120$53you save $6728-day
25$125$53you save $7228-day
26$130$53you save $7728-day
27$135$53you save $8228-day
28$140$53you save $8728-day
29$145$58you save $87day
30$150$63you save $87day
31$155$68you save $87day
32$160$71you save $89week
33$165$71you save $94week
34$170$71you save $99week
35$175$71you save $104week

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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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.