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

From day 7. 7 days at the $25 day rate would be $175, but the weekly rate caps it at $150.

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

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $400 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.

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Justin Mathews · Wheelbarrow

Day: $25
Week: $150
28 days: $400

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $175. On the week rate it is $150.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $450. On the 28-day rate it is $400.

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 wheelbarrow, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$25	$25	—	day
2	$50	$50	—	day
3	$75	$75	—	day
4	$100	$100	—	day
5	$125	$125	—	day
6	$150	$150	—	day
7	$175	$150	you save $25	week
8	$200	$175	you save $25	week
9	$225	$200	you save $25	week
10	$250	$225	you save $25	week
11	$275	$250	you save $25	week
12	$300	$275	you save $25	week
13	$325	$300	you save $25	week
14	$350	$300	you save $50	week
15	$375	$325	you save $50	week
16	$400	$350	you save $50	week
17	$425	$375	you save $50	week
18	$450	$400	you save $50	28-day
19	$475	$400	you save $75	28-day
20	$500	$400	you save $100	28-day
21	$525	$400	you save $125	28-day
22	$550	$400	you save $150	28-day
23	$575	$400	you save $175	28-day
24	$600	$400	you save $200	28-day
25	$625	$400	you save $225	28-day
26	$650	$400	you save $250	28-day
27	$675	$400	you save $275	28-day
28	$700	$400	you save $300	28-day
29	$725	$425	you save $300	day
30	$750	$450	you save $300	day
31	$775	$475	you save $300	day
32	$800	$500	you save $300	day
33	$825	$525	you save $300	day
34	$850	$550	you save $300	day
35	$875	$550	you save $325	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.