When is it cheaper to rent a Paint spray gun by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $75 day rate would be $225, but the weekly rate caps it at $200.

When is it cheaper to rent a Paint spray gun on the 28-day rate?

From day 15. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $405 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.

Paint spray gun

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Sha-Ron McQueen · Paint - Sprayers

Day: $75
Week: $200
28 days: $405

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $225. On the week rate it is $200.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $1,125. On the 28-day rate it is $405.

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 Paint spray gun, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$75	$75	—	day
2	$150	$150	—	day
3	$225	$200	you save $25	week
4	$300	$200	you save $100	week
5	$375	$200	you save $175	week
6	$450	$200	you save $250	week
7	$525	$200	you save $325	week
8	$600	$275	you save $325	week
9	$675	$350	you save $325	week
10	$750	$400	you save $350	week
11	$825	$400	you save $425	week
12	$900	$400	you save $500	week
13	$975	$400	you save $575	week
14	$1,050	$400	you save $650	week
15	$1,125	$405	you save $720	28-day
16	$1,200	$405	you save $795	28-day
17	$1,275	$405	you save $870	28-day
18	$1,350	$405	you save $945	28-day
19	$1,425	$405	you save $1,020	28-day
20	$1,500	$405	you save $1,095	28-day
21	$1,575	$405	you save $1,170	28-day
22	$1,650	$405	you save $1,245	28-day
23	$1,725	$405	you save $1,320	28-day
24	$1,800	$405	you save $1,395	28-day
25	$1,875	$405	you save $1,470	28-day
26	$1,950	$405	you save $1,545	28-day
27	$2,025	$405	you save $1,620	28-day
28	$2,100	$405	you save $1,695	28-day
29	$2,175	$480	you save $1,695	day
30	$2,250	$555	you save $1,695	day
31	$2,325	$605	you save $1,720	week
32	$2,400	$605	you save $1,795	week
33	$2,475	$605	you save $1,870	week
34	$2,550	$605	you save $1,945	week
35	$2,625	$605	you save $2,020	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.