When is it cheaper to rent a Walk Behind Floor Scrubber by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $51 day rate would be $306, but the weekly rate caps it at $286.

When is it cheaper to rent a Walk Behind Floor Scrubber on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,071 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.

Walk Behind Floor Scrubber

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Celestin Nartey

Day: $51
Week: $286
28 days: $1,071

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $306. On the week rate it is $286.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $1,326. On the 28-day rate it is $1,071.

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 Walk Behind Floor Scrubber, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$51	$51	—	day
2	$102	$102	—	day
3	$153	$153	—	day
4	$204	$204	—	day
5	$255	$255	—	day
6	$306	$286	you save $20	week
7	$357	$286	you save $71	week
8	$408	$337	you save $71	week
9	$459	$388	you save $71	week
10	$510	$439	you save $71	week
11	$561	$490	you save $71	week
12	$612	$541	you save $71	week
13	$663	$572	you save $91	week
14	$714	$572	you save $142	week
15	$765	$623	you save $142	week
16	$816	$674	you save $142	week
17	$867	$725	you save $142	week
18	$918	$776	you save $142	week
19	$969	$827	you save $142	week
20	$1,020	$858	you save $162	week
21	$1,071	$858	you save $213	week
22	$1,122	$909	you save $213	week
23	$1,173	$960	you save $213	week
24	$1,224	$1,011	you save $213	week
25	$1,275	$1,062	you save $213	week
26	$1,326	$1,071	you save $255	28-day
27	$1,377	$1,071	you save $306	28-day
28	$1,428	$1,071	you save $357	28-day
29	$1,479	$1,122	you save $357	day
30	$1,530	$1,173	you save $357	day
31	$1,581	$1,224	you save $357	day
32	$1,632	$1,275	you save $357	day
33	$1,683	$1,326	you save $357	day
34	$1,734	$1,357	you save $377	week
35	$1,785	$1,357	you save $428	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 · 26 days: $1,071
Rental protection (RPP): $160.65
Service fee: $107.10
Estimated total: $1,338.75

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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.