When is it cheaper to rent a 6.5ft Husky Fiberglass A-Frame Ladder by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $18 day rate would be $90, but the weekly rate caps it at $75.

When is it cheaper to rent a 6.5ft Husky Fiberglass A-Frame Ladder on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $200 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.

6.5ft Husky Fiberglass A-Frame Ladder

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Ethan Forsman · Ladder - Frame

Day: $18
Week: $75
28 days: $200

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $90. On the week rate it is $75.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $306. On the 28-day rate it is $200.

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 6.5ft Husky Fiberglass A-Frame Ladder, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$18	$18	—	day
2	$36	$36	—	day
3	$54	$54	—	day
4	$72	$72	—	day
5	$90	$75	you save $15	week
6	$108	$75	you save $33	week
7	$126	$75	you save $51	week
8	$144	$93	you save $51	week
9	$162	$111	you save $51	week
10	$180	$129	you save $51	week
11	$198	$147	you save $51	week
12	$216	$150	you save $66	week
13	$234	$150	you save $84	week
14	$252	$150	you save $102	week
15	$270	$168	you save $102	week
16	$288	$186	you save $102	week
17	$306	$200	you save $106	28-day
18	$324	$200	you save $124	28-day
19	$342	$200	you save $142	28-day
20	$360	$200	you save $160	28-day
21	$378	$200	you save $178	28-day
22	$396	$200	you save $196	28-day
23	$414	$200	you save $214	28-day
24	$432	$200	you save $232	28-day
25	$450	$200	you save $250	28-day
26	$468	$200	you save $268	28-day
27	$486	$200	you save $286	28-day
28	$504	$200	you save $304	28-day
29	$522	$218	you save $304	day
30	$540	$236	you save $304	day
31	$558	$254	you save $304	day
32	$576	$272	you save $304	day
33	$594	$275	you save $319	week
34	$612	$275	you save $337	week
35	$630	$275	you save $355	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.