When is it cheaper to rent a Chicago Pneumatic 25KWA Generator by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $162 day rate would be $648, but the weekly rate caps it at $645.

When is it cheaper to rent a Chicago Pneumatic 25KWA Generator on the 28-day rate?

From day 18. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,933 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.

Chicago Pneumatic 25KWA Generator

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Simon Equipment Rentals · Generators - Diesel

Day: $162
Week: $645
28 days: $1,933

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $648. On the week rate it is $645.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $2,916. On the 28-day rate it is $1,933.

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 Chicago Pneumatic 25KWA Generator, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$162	$162	—	day
2	$324	$324	—	day
3	$486	$486	—	day
4	$648	$645	you save $3	week
5	$810	$645	you save $165	week
6	$972	$645	you save $327	week
7	$1,134	$645	you save $489	week
8	$1,296	$807	you save $489	week
9	$1,458	$969	you save $489	week
10	$1,620	$1,131	you save $489	week
11	$1,782	$1,290	you save $492	week
12	$1,944	$1,290	you save $654	week
13	$2,106	$1,290	you save $816	week
14	$2,268	$1,290	you save $978	week
15	$2,430	$1,452	you save $978	week
16	$2,592	$1,614	you save $978	week
17	$2,754	$1,776	you save $978	week
18	$2,916	$1,933	you save $983	28-day
19	$3,078	$1,933	you save $1,145	28-day
20	$3,240	$1,933	you save $1,307	28-day
21	$3,402	$1,933	you save $1,469	28-day
22	$3,564	$1,933	you save $1,631	28-day
23	$3,726	$1,933	you save $1,793	28-day
24	$3,888	$1,933	you save $1,955	28-day
25	$4,050	$1,933	you save $2,117	28-day
26	$4,212	$1,933	you save $2,279	28-day
27	$4,374	$1,933	you save $2,441	28-day
28	$4,536	$1,933	you save $2,603	28-day
29	$4,698	$2,095	you save $2,603	day
30	$4,860	$2,257	you save $2,603	day
31	$5,022	$2,419	you save $2,603	day
32	$5,184	$2,578	you save $2,606	week
33	$5,346	$2,578	you save $2,768	week
34	$5,508	$2,578	you save $2,930	week
35	$5,670	$2,578	you save $3,092	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

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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.