When is it cheaper to rent a wheelbarrow by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $35 day rate would be $105, but the weekly rate caps it at $100.

When is it cheaper to rent a wheelbarrow on the 28-day rate?

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $300 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.

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Ray Johnson · Wheelbarrow

Day: $35
Week: $100
28 days: $300

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $105. On the week rate it is $100.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $595. On the 28-day rate it is $300.

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 wheelbarrow, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$35	$35	—	day
2	$70	$70	—	day
3	$105	$100	you save $5	week
4	$140	$100	you save $40	week
5	$175	$100	you save $75	week
6	$210	$100	you save $110	week
7	$245	$100	you save $145	week
8	$280	$135	you save $145	week
9	$315	$170	you save $145	week
10	$350	$200	you save $150	week
11	$385	$200	you save $185	week
12	$420	$200	you save $220	week
13	$455	$200	you save $255	week
14	$490	$200	you save $290	week
15	$525	$235	you save $290	week
16	$560	$270	you save $290	week
17	$595	$300	you save $295	28-day
18	$630	$300	you save $330	28-day
19	$665	$300	you save $365	28-day
20	$700	$300	you save $400	28-day
21	$735	$300	you save $435	28-day
22	$770	$300	you save $470	28-day
23	$805	$300	you save $505	28-day
24	$840	$300	you save $540	28-day
25	$875	$300	you save $575	28-day
26	$910	$300	you save $610	28-day
27	$945	$300	you save $645	28-day
28	$980	$300	you save $680	28-day
29	$1,015	$335	you save $680	day
30	$1,050	$370	you save $680	day
31	$1,085	$400	you save $685	week
32	$1,120	$400	you save $720	week
33	$1,155	$400	you save $755	week
34	$1,190	$400	you save $790	week
35	$1,225	$400	you save $825	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.