When is it cheaper to rent a RYobi Portable Concrete Mixer / Cement Mixer 5 cu. ft. on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $520 28-day rate, and the price stops climbing for the rest of the cycle.

Break-even duration

Q: When is it cheaper to rent a RYobi Portable Concrete Mixer / Cement Mixer 5 cu. ft. by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $35 day rate would be $175, but the weekly rate caps it at $160.

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.

RYobi Portable Concrete Mixer / Cement Mixer 5 cu. ft.

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Zachariah Goodman · Concrete - Mixers

Day: $35
Week: $160
28 days: $520

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $175. On the week rate it is $160.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $805. On the 28-day rate it is $520.

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 RYobi Portable Concrete Mixer / Cement Mixer 5 cu. ft., days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$35	$35	—	day
2	$70	$70	—	day
3	$105	$105	—	day
4	$140	$140	—	day
5	$175	$160	you save $15	week
6	$210	$160	you save $50	week
7	$245	$160	you save $85	week
8	$280	$195	you save $85	week
9	$315	$230	you save $85	week
10	$350	$265	you save $85	week
11	$385	$300	you save $85	week
12	$420	$320	you save $100	week
13	$455	$320	you save $135	week
14	$490	$320	you save $170	week
15	$525	$355	you save $170	week
16	$560	$390	you save $170	week
17	$595	$425	you save $170	week
18	$630	$460	you save $170	week
19	$665	$480	you save $185	week
20	$700	$480	you save $220	week
21	$735	$480	you save $255	week
22	$770	$515	you save $255	week
23	$805	$520	you save $285	28-day
24	$840	$520	you save $320	28-day
25	$875	$520	you save $355	28-day
26	$910	$520	you save $390	28-day
27	$945	$520	you save $425	28-day
28	$980	$520	you save $460	28-day
29	$1,015	$555	you save $460	day
30	$1,050	$590	you save $460	day
31	$1,085	$625	you save $460	day
32	$1,120	$660	you save $460	day
33	$1,155	$680	you save $475	week
34	$1,190	$680	you save $510	week
35	$1,225	$680	you save $545	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.