When is it cheaper to rent a GreenWorks Elite Power Washer by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $50 day rate would be $300, but the weekly rate caps it at $280.

When is it cheaper to rent a GreenWorks Elite Power Washer on the 28-day rate?

From day 24. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $990 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.

GreenWorks Elite Power Washer

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Dustin Ebaugh · Pressure Washers

Day: $50
Week: $280
28 days: $990

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $300. On the week rate it is $280.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $1,200. On the 28-day rate it is $990.

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 GreenWorks Elite Power Washer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$50	$50	—	day
2	$100	$100	—	day
3	$150	$150	—	day
4	$200	$200	—	day
5	$250	$250	—	day
6	$300	$280	you save $20	week
7	$350	$280	you save $70	week
8	$400	$330	you save $70	week
9	$450	$380	you save $70	week
10	$500	$430	you save $70	week
11	$550	$480	you save $70	week
12	$600	$530	you save $70	week
13	$650	$560	you save $90	week
14	$700	$560	you save $140	week
15	$750	$610	you save $140	week
16	$800	$660	you save $140	week
17	$850	$710	you save $140	week
18	$900	$760	you save $140	week
19	$950	$810	you save $140	week
20	$1,000	$840	you save $160	week
21	$1,050	$840	you save $210	week
22	$1,100	$890	you save $210	week
23	$1,150	$940	you save $210	week
24	$1,200	$990	you save $210	28-day
25	$1,250	$990	you save $260	28-day
26	$1,300	$990	you save $310	28-day
27	$1,350	$990	you save $360	28-day
28	$1,400	$990	you save $410	28-day
29	$1,450	$1,040	you save $410	day
30	$1,500	$1,090	you save $410	day
31	$1,550	$1,140	you save $410	day
32	$1,600	$1,190	you save $410	day
33	$1,650	$1,240	you save $410	day
34	$1,700	$1,270	you save $430	week
35	$1,750	$1,270	you save $480	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 · 24 days: $990
Rental protection (RPP): $148.50
Service fee: $99
Estimated total: $1,237.50

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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.