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

From day 4. 4 days at the $250 day rate would be $1,000, but the weekly rate caps it at $950.

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

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,900 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.

straw blower

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Dustin carroll · Snow Blowers

Day: $250
Week: $950
28 days: $2,900

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $1,000. On the week rate it is $950.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $5,500. On the 28-day rate it is $2,900.

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 straw blower, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$250	$250	—	day
2	$500	$500	—	day
3	$750	$750	—	day
4	$1,000	$950	you save $50	week
5	$1,250	$950	you save $300	week
6	$1,500	$950	you save $550	week
7	$1,750	$950	you save $800	week
8	$2,000	$1,200	you save $800	week
9	$2,250	$1,450	you save $800	week
10	$2,500	$1,700	you save $800	week
11	$2,750	$1,900	you save $850	week
12	$3,000	$1,900	you save $1,100	week
13	$3,250	$1,900	you save $1,350	week
14	$3,500	$1,900	you save $1,600	week
15	$3,750	$2,150	you save $1,600	week
16	$4,000	$2,400	you save $1,600	week
17	$4,250	$2,650	you save $1,600	week
18	$4,500	$2,850	you save $1,650	week
19	$4,750	$2,850	you save $1,900	week
20	$5,000	$2,850	you save $2,150	week
21	$5,250	$2,850	you save $2,400	week
22	$5,500	$2,900	you save $2,600	28-day
23	$5,750	$2,900	you save $2,850	28-day
24	$6,000	$2,900	you save $3,100	28-day
25	$6,250	$2,900	you save $3,350	28-day
26	$6,500	$2,900	you save $3,600	28-day
27	$6,750	$2,900	you save $3,850	28-day
28	$7,000	$2,900	you save $4,100	28-day
29	$7,250	$3,150	you save $4,100	day
30	$7,500	$3,400	you save $4,100	day
31	$7,750	$3,650	you save $4,100	day
32	$8,000	$3,850	you save $4,150	week
33	$8,250	$3,850	you save $4,400	week
34	$8,500	$3,850	you save $4,650	week
35	$8,750	$3,850	you save $4,900	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 22 days: $2,900
Rental protection (RPP): $435
Service fee: $290
Estimated total: $3,625

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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.