When is it cheaper to rent a Commercial Grade Dehumidifier 190 pt. by the week than by the day?

From day 6. 6 days at the $45 day rate would be $270, but the weekly rate caps it at $250.

When is it cheaper to rent a Commercial Grade Dehumidifier 190 pt. on the 28-day rate?

From day 19. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $700 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.

Commercial Grade Dehumidifier 190 pt.

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Lorenzo Gutierrez · Dehumidifiers - Desiccant

Day: $45
Week: $250
28 days: $700

Daily stops winning on

day 6

6 days at the day rate would be $270. On the week rate it is $250.

Weekly stops winning on

day 19

19 days at the day rate would be $855. On the 28-day rate it is $700.

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 Commercial Grade Dehumidifier 190 pt., days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$45	$45	—	day
2	$90	$90	—	day
3	$135	$135	—	day
4	$180	$180	—	day
5	$225	$225	—	day
6	$270	$250	you save $20	week
7	$315	$250	you save $65	week
8	$360	$295	you save $65	week
9	$405	$340	you save $65	week
10	$450	$385	you save $65	week
11	$495	$430	you save $65	week
12	$540	$475	you save $65	week
13	$585	$500	you save $85	week
14	$630	$500	you save $130	week
15	$675	$545	you save $130	week
16	$720	$590	you save $130	week
17	$765	$635	you save $130	week
18	$810	$680	you save $130	week
19	$855	$700	you save $155	28-day
20	$900	$700	you save $200	28-day
21	$945	$700	you save $245	28-day
22	$990	$700	you save $290	28-day
23	$1,035	$700	you save $335	28-day
24	$1,080	$700	you save $380	28-day
25	$1,125	$700	you save $425	28-day
26	$1,170	$700	you save $470	28-day
27	$1,215	$700	you save $515	28-day
28	$1,260	$700	you save $560	28-day
29	$1,305	$745	you save $560	day
30	$1,350	$790	you save $560	day
31	$1,395	$835	you save $560	day
32	$1,440	$880	you save $560	day
33	$1,485	$925	you save $560	day
34	$1,530	$950	you save $580	week
35	$1,575	$950	you save $625	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.