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

From day 6. 6 days at the $75 day rate would be $450, but the weekly rate caps it at $420.

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

From day 25. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,500 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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Justin Mathews · Scaffolding - Part - Guard Rail - Side

Day: $75
Week: $420
28 days: $1,500

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $450. On the week rate it is $420.

Weekly stops winning on

day 25

25 days at the day rate would be $1,875. On the 28-day rate it is $1,500.

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 scaffold, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$75	$75	—	day
2	$150	$150	—	day
3	$225	$225	—	day
4	$300	$300	—	day
5	$375	$375	—	day
6	$450	$420	you save $30	week
7	$525	$420	you save $105	week
8	$600	$495	you save $105	week
9	$675	$570	you save $105	week
10	$750	$645	you save $105	week
11	$825	$720	you save $105	week
12	$900	$795	you save $105	week
13	$975	$840	you save $135	week
14	$1,050	$840	you save $210	week
15	$1,125	$915	you save $210	week
16	$1,200	$990	you save $210	week
17	$1,275	$1,065	you save $210	week
18	$1,350	$1,140	you save $210	week
19	$1,425	$1,215	you save $210	week
20	$1,500	$1,260	you save $240	week
21	$1,575	$1,260	you save $315	week
22	$1,650	$1,335	you save $315	week
23	$1,725	$1,410	you save $315	week
24	$1,800	$1,485	you save $315	week
25	$1,875	$1,500	you save $375	28-day
26	$1,950	$1,500	you save $450	28-day
27	$2,025	$1,500	you save $525	28-day
28	$2,100	$1,500	you save $600	28-day
29	$2,175	$1,575	you save $600	day
30	$2,250	$1,650	you save $600	day
31	$2,325	$1,725	you save $600	day
32	$2,400	$1,800	you save $600	day
33	$2,475	$1,875	you save $600	day
34	$2,550	$1,920	you save $630	week
35	$2,625	$1,920	you save $705	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 · 25 days: $1,500
Rental protection (RPP): $225
Service fee: $150
Estimated total: $1,875

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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.