When is it cheaper to rent a Cub Cadet ZT1 42 Zero-Turn Lawn Mower by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $80 day rate would be $560, but the weekly rate caps it at $504.

When is it cheaper to rent a Cub Cadet ZT1 42 Zero-Turn Lawn Mower on the 28-day rate?

From day 27. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,920 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.

Cub Cadet ZT1 42 Zero-Turn Lawn Mower

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Katelin Miller · Lawn Mowers - Ride On

Day: $80
Week: $504
28 days: $1,920

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $560. On the week rate it is $504.

Weekly stops winning on

day 27

27 days at the day rate would be $2,160. On the 28-day rate it is $1,920.

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 Cub Cadet ZT1 42 Zero-Turn Lawn Mower, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$80	$80	—	day
2	$160	$160	—	day
3	$240	$240	—	day
4	$320	$320	—	day
5	$400	$400	—	day
6	$480	$480	—	day
7	$560	$504	you save $56	week
8	$640	$584	you save $56	week
9	$720	$664	you save $56	week
10	$800	$744	you save $56	week
11	$880	$824	you save $56	week
12	$960	$904	you save $56	week
13	$1,040	$984	you save $56	week
14	$1,120	$1,008	you save $112	week
15	$1,200	$1,088	you save $112	week
16	$1,280	$1,168	you save $112	week
17	$1,360	$1,248	you save $112	week
18	$1,440	$1,328	you save $112	week
19	$1,520	$1,408	you save $112	week
20	$1,600	$1,488	you save $112	week
21	$1,680	$1,512	you save $168	week
22	$1,760	$1,592	you save $168	week
23	$1,840	$1,672	you save $168	week
24	$1,920	$1,752	you save $168	week
25	$2,000	$1,832	you save $168	week
26	$2,080	$1,912	you save $168	week
27	$2,160	$1,920	you save $240	28-day
28	$2,240	$1,920	you save $320	28-day
29	$2,320	$2,000	you save $320	day
30	$2,400	$2,080	you save $320	day
31	$2,480	$2,160	you save $320	day
32	$2,560	$2,240	you save $320	day
33	$2,640	$2,320	you save $320	day
34	$2,720	$2,400	you save $320	day
35	$2,800	$2,424	you save $376	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.