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

From day 6. 6 days at the $70 day rate would be $420, but the weekly rate caps it at $400.

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

From day 17. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,000 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.

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Eduardo Lozano · Concrete - Blades

Day: $70
Week: $400
28 days: $1,000

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $420. On the week rate it is $400.

Weekly stops winning on

day 17

17 days at the day rate would be $1,190. On the 28-day rate it is $1,000.

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 box blade, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$70	$70	—	day
2	$140	$140	—	day
3	$210	$210	—	day
4	$280	$280	—	day
5	$350	$350	—	day
6	$420	$400	you save $20	week
7	$490	$400	you save $90	week
8	$560	$470	you save $90	week
9	$630	$540	you save $90	week
10	$700	$610	you save $90	week
11	$770	$680	you save $90	week
12	$840	$750	you save $90	week
13	$910	$800	you save $110	week
14	$980	$800	you save $180	week
15	$1,050	$870	you save $180	week
16	$1,120	$940	you save $180	week
17	$1,190	$1,000	you save $190	28-day
18	$1,260	$1,000	you save $260	28-day
19	$1,330	$1,000	you save $330	28-day
20	$1,400	$1,000	you save $400	28-day
21	$1,470	$1,000	you save $470	28-day
22	$1,540	$1,000	you save $540	28-day
23	$1,610	$1,000	you save $610	28-day
24	$1,680	$1,000	you save $680	28-day
25	$1,750	$1,000	you save $750	28-day
26	$1,820	$1,000	you save $820	28-day
27	$1,890	$1,000	you save $890	28-day
28	$1,960	$1,000	you save $960	28-day
29	$2,030	$1,070	you save $960	day
30	$2,100	$1,140	you save $960	day
31	$2,170	$1,210	you save $960	day
32	$2,240	$1,280	you save $960	day
33	$2,310	$1,350	you save $960	day
34	$2,380	$1,400	you save $980	week
35	$2,450	$1,400	you save $1,050	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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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.