When is it cheaper to rent a sawzall by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $21 day rate would be $105, but the weekly rate caps it at $100.

When is it cheaper to rent a sawzall on the 28-day rate?

From day 24. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $350 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.

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Jeffrey MacLeod · Saws - Masonry Saws

Day: $21
Week: $100
28 days: $350

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $105. On the week rate it is $100.

Weekly stops winning on

day 24

24 days at the day rate would be $504. On the 28-day rate it is $350.

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 sawzall, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$21	$21	—	day
2	$42	$42	—	day
3	$63	$63	—	day
4	$84	$84	—	day
5	$105	$100	you save $5	week
6	$126	$100	you save $26	week
7	$147	$100	you save $47	week
8	$168	$121	you save $47	week
9	$189	$142	you save $47	week
10	$210	$163	you save $47	week
11	$231	$184	you save $47	week
12	$252	$200	you save $52	week
13	$273	$200	you save $73	week
14	$294	$200	you save $94	week
15	$315	$221	you save $94	week
16	$336	$242	you save $94	week
17	$357	$263	you save $94	week
18	$378	$284	you save $94	week
19	$399	$300	you save $99	week
20	$420	$300	you save $120	week
21	$441	$300	you save $141	week
22	$462	$321	you save $141	week
23	$483	$342	you save $141	week
24	$504	$350	you save $154	28-day
25	$525	$350	you save $175	28-day
26	$546	$350	you save $196	28-day
27	$567	$350	you save $217	28-day
28	$588	$350	you save $238	28-day
29	$609	$371	you save $238	day
30	$630	$392	you save $238	day
31	$651	$413	you save $238	day
32	$672	$434	you save $238	day
33	$693	$450	you save $243	week
34	$714	$450	you save $264	week
35	$735	$450	you save $285	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.