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.

Ellis Parapet Wall Guardrail System

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Mesa #1 · Site Support - Barriers

Day
$75
Week
$200
28 days
$900

This card’s 28-day rate can never be its best price — Month rate ($90000) is higher than a full 28-day run of the day/week rates ($80000) — the month rate will never be the best price. That is a rate-entry question for the operator, not a duration for you to hit, so no break-even day is shown.

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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.