When is it cheaper to rent a Automatic-Feed Drain Cleaning Drum Machine by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $80 day rate would be $400, but the weekly rate caps it at $347.

When is it cheaper to rent a Automatic-Feed Drain Cleaning Drum Machine on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,008 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.

Automatic-Feed Drain Cleaning Drum Machine

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Ajit Bhandari · Plumbing and Electrical - Augers

Day: $80
Week: $347
28 days: $1,008

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $400. On the week rate it is $347.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $1,440. On the 28-day rate it is $1,008.

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 Automatic-Feed Drain Cleaning Drum Machine, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$80	$80	—	day
2	$160	$160	—	day
3	$240	$240	—	day
4	$320	$320	—	day
5	$400	$347	you save $53	week
6	$480	$347	you save $133	week
7	$560	$347	you save $213	week
8	$640	$427	you save $213	week
9	$720	$507	you save $213	week
10	$800	$587	you save $213	week
11	$880	$667	you save $213	week
12	$960	$694	you save $266	week
13	$1,040	$694	you save $346	week
14	$1,120	$694	you save $426	week
15	$1,200	$774	you save $426	week
16	$1,280	$854	you save $426	week
17	$1,360	$934	you save $426	week
18	$1,440	$1,008	you save $432	28-day
19	$1,520	$1,008	you save $512	28-day
20	$1,600	$1,008	you save $592	28-day
21	$1,680	$1,008	you save $672	28-day
22	$1,760	$1,008	you save $752	28-day
23	$1,840	$1,008	you save $832	28-day
24	$1,920	$1,008	you save $912	28-day
25	$2,000	$1,008	you save $992	28-day
26	$2,080	$1,008	you save $1,072	28-day
27	$2,160	$1,008	you save $1,152	28-day
28	$2,240	$1,008	you save $1,232	28-day
29	$2,320	$1,088	you save $1,232	day
30	$2,400	$1,168	you save $1,232	day
31	$2,480	$1,248	you save $1,232	day
32	$2,560	$1,328	you save $1,232	day
33	$2,640	$1,355	you save $1,285	week
34	$2,720	$1,355	you save $1,365	week
35	$2,800	$1,355	you save $1,445	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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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.