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.

Kerosene Forced Air Heater

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Christina Hall · Heaters - Direct Fired

Day
$40
Week
$170
28 days
$450

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $200. On the week rate it is $170.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $680. On the 28-day rate it is $450.

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 Kerosene Forced Air Heater, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$40$40—day
2$80$80—day
3$120$120—day
4$160$160—day
5$200$170you save $30week
6$240$170you save $70week
7$280$170you save $110week
8$320$210you save $110week
9$360$250you save $110week
10$400$290you save $110week
11$440$330you save $110week
12$480$340you save $140week
13$520$340you save $180week
14$560$340you save $220week
15$600$380you save $220week
16$640$420you save $220week
17$680$450you save $23028-day
18$720$450you save $27028-day
19$760$450you save $31028-day
20$800$450you save $35028-day
21$840$450you save $39028-day
22$880$450you save $43028-day
23$920$450you save $47028-day
24$960$450you save $51028-day
25$1,000$450you save $55028-day
26$1,040$450you save $59028-day
27$1,080$450you save $63028-day
28$1,120$450you save $67028-day
29$1,160$490you save $670day
30$1,200$530you save $670day
31$1,240$570you save $670day
32$1,280$610you save $670day
33$1,320$620you save $700week
34$1,360$620you save $740week
35$1,400$620you save $780week

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.