When is it cheaper to rent a Ridgid Table Saw by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $39.25 day rate would be $196.25, but the weekly rate caps it at $170.

When is it cheaper to rent a Ridgid Table Saw on the 28-day rate?

From day 19. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $506 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.

Ridgid Table Saw

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Anna Bean · Saws - Table Saws

Day: $39.25
Week: $170
28 days: $506

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $196.25. On the week rate it is $170.

Weekly stops winning on

day 19

19 days at the day rate would be $745.75. On the 28-day rate it is $506.

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 Ridgid Table Saw, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$39.25	$39.25	—	day
2	$78.50	$78.50	—	day
3	$117.75	$117.75	—	day
4	$157	$157	—	day
5	$196.25	$170	you save $26.25	week
6	$235.50	$170	you save $65.50	week
7	$274.75	$170	you save $104.75	week
8	$314	$209.25	you save $104.75	week
9	$353.25	$248.50	you save $104.75	week
10	$392.50	$287.75	you save $104.75	week
11	$431.75	$327	you save $104.75	week
12	$471	$340	you save $131	week
13	$510.25	$340	you save $170.25	week
14	$549.50	$340	you save $209.50	week
15	$588.75	$379.25	you save $209.50	week
16	$628	$418.50	you save $209.50	week
17	$667.25	$457.75	you save $209.50	week
18	$706.50	$497	you save $209.50	week
19	$745.75	$506	you save $239.75	28-day
20	$785	$506	you save $279	28-day
21	$824.25	$506	you save $318.25	28-day
22	$863.50	$506	you save $357.50	28-day
23	$902.75	$506	you save $396.75	28-day
24	$942	$506	you save $436	28-day
25	$981.25	$506	you save $475.25	28-day
26	$1,020.50	$506	you save $514.50	28-day
27	$1,059.75	$506	you save $553.75	28-day
28	$1,099	$506	you save $593	28-day
29	$1,138.25	$545.25	you save $593	day
30	$1,177.50	$584.50	you save $593	day
31	$1,216.75	$623.75	you save $593	day
32	$1,256	$663	you save $593	day
33	$1,295.25	$676	you save $619.25	week
34	$1,334.50	$676	you save $658.50	week
35	$1,373.75	$676	you save $697.75	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 · 19 days: $506
Rental protection (RPP): $75.90
Service fee: $50.60
Estimated total: $632.50

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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.