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.

County Line 15 Gallon Pull Behind Sprayer

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K&B Rentals LLC · Back Pack Sprayers

Day
$40
Week
$130
28 days
$400

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $160. On the week rate it is $130.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $880. On the 28-day rate it is $400.

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 County Line 15 Gallon Pull Behind Sprayer, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$40$40—day
2$80$80—day
3$120$120—day
4$160$130you save $30week
5$200$130you save $70week
6$240$130you save $110week
7$280$130you save $150week
8$320$170you save $150week
9$360$210you save $150week
10$400$250you save $150week
11$440$260you save $180week
12$480$260you save $220week
13$520$260you save $260week
14$560$260you save $300week
15$600$300you save $300week
16$640$340you save $300week
17$680$380you save $300week
18$720$390you save $330week
19$760$390you save $370week
20$800$390you save $410week
21$840$390you save $450week
22$880$400you save $48028-day
23$920$400you save $52028-day
24$960$400you save $56028-day
25$1,000$400you save $60028-day
26$1,040$400you save $64028-day
27$1,080$400you save $68028-day
28$1,120$400you save $72028-day
29$1,160$440you save $720day
30$1,200$480you save $720day
31$1,240$520you save $720day
32$1,280$530you save $750week
33$1,320$530you save $790week
34$1,360$530you save $830week
35$1,400$530you save $870week

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.