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

From day 3. 3 days at the $175 day rate would be $525, but the weekly rate caps it at $500.

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

From day 17. 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.

Auger

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Amanda Butler · Plumbing and Electrical - Augers

Day: $175
Week: $500
28 days: $1,500

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $525. On the week rate it is $500.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $2,975. 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 Auger, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$175	$175	—	day
2	$350	$350	—	day
3	$525	$500	you save $25	week
4	$700	$500	you save $200	week
5	$875	$500	you save $375	week
6	$1,050	$500	you save $550	week
7	$1,225	$500	you save $725	week
8	$1,400	$675	you save $725	week
9	$1,575	$850	you save $725	week
10	$1,750	$1,000	you save $750	week
11	$1,925	$1,000	you save $925	week
12	$2,100	$1,000	you save $1,100	week
13	$2,275	$1,000	you save $1,275	week
14	$2,450	$1,000	you save $1,450	week
15	$2,625	$1,175	you save $1,450	week
16	$2,800	$1,350	you save $1,450	week
17	$2,975	$1,500	you save $1,475	28-day
18	$3,150	$1,500	you save $1,650	28-day
19	$3,325	$1,500	you save $1,825	28-day
20	$3,500	$1,500	you save $2,000	28-day
21	$3,675	$1,500	you save $2,175	28-day
22	$3,850	$1,500	you save $2,350	28-day
23	$4,025	$1,500	you save $2,525	28-day
24	$4,200	$1,500	you save $2,700	28-day
25	$4,375	$1,500	you save $2,875	28-day
26	$4,550	$1,500	you save $3,050	28-day
27	$4,725	$1,500	you save $3,225	28-day
28	$4,900	$1,500	you save $3,400	28-day
29	$5,075	$1,675	you save $3,400	day
30	$5,250	$1,850	you save $3,400	day
31	$5,425	$2,000	you save $3,425	week
32	$5,600	$2,000	you save $3,600	week
33	$5,775	$2,000	you save $3,775	week
34	$5,950	$2,000	you save $3,950	week
35	$6,125	$2,000	you save $4,125	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.