When is it cheaper to rent a 2' Trencher by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $225 day rate would be $675, but the weekly rate caps it at $650.

When is it cheaper to rent a 2' Trencher on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,949 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.

2' Trencher

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Casaperior Equipment Rentals · Trencher - Walk-Behind - Gasoline

Day: $225
Week: $650
28 days: $1,949

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $675. On the week rate it is $650.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $3,825. On the 28-day rate it is $1,949.

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 2' Trencher, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$225	$225	—	day
2	$450	$450	—	day
3	$675	$650	you save $25	week
4	$900	$650	you save $250	week
5	$1,125	$650	you save $475	week
6	$1,350	$650	you save $700	week
7	$1,575	$650	you save $925	week
8	$1,800	$875	you save $925	week
9	$2,025	$1,100	you save $925	week
10	$2,250	$1,300	you save $950	week
11	$2,475	$1,300	you save $1,175	week
12	$2,700	$1,300	you save $1,400	week
13	$2,925	$1,300	you save $1,625	week
14	$3,150	$1,300	you save $1,850	week
15	$3,375	$1,525	you save $1,850	week
16	$3,600	$1,750	you save $1,850	week
17	$3,825	$1,949	you save $1,876	28-day
18	$4,050	$1,949	you save $2,101	28-day
19	$4,275	$1,949	you save $2,326	28-day
20	$4,500	$1,949	you save $2,551	28-day
21	$4,725	$1,949	you save $2,776	28-day
22	$4,950	$1,949	you save $3,001	28-day
23	$5,175	$1,949	you save $3,226	28-day
24	$5,400	$1,949	you save $3,451	28-day
25	$5,625	$1,949	you save $3,676	28-day
26	$5,850	$1,949	you save $3,901	28-day
27	$6,075	$1,949	you save $4,126	28-day
28	$6,300	$1,949	you save $4,351	28-day
29	$6,525	$2,174	you save $4,351	day
30	$6,750	$2,399	you save $4,351	day
31	$6,975	$2,599	you save $4,376	week
32	$7,200	$2,599	you save $4,601	week
33	$7,425	$2,599	you save $4,826	week
34	$7,650	$2,599	you save $5,051	week
35	$7,875	$2,599	you save $5,276	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 · 17 days: $1,949
Rental protection (RPP): $292.35
Service fee: $194.90
Estimated total: $2,436.25

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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.