When is it cheaper to rent a 20 ft Ladder by the week than by the day?

From day 5. 5 days at the $30 day rate would be $150, but the weekly rate caps it at $125.

When is it cheaper to rent a 20 ft Ladder on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $385 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.

20 ft Ladder

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Ramon Rivera · Ladder - Fire Escape Ladder

Day: $30
Week: $125
28 days: $385

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $150. On the week rate it is $125.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $660. On the 28-day rate it is $385.

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 20 ft Ladder, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$30	$30	—	day
2	$60	$60	—	day
3	$90	$90	—	day
4	$120	$120	—	day
5	$150	$125	you save $25	week
6	$180	$125	you save $55	week
7	$210	$125	you save $85	week
8	$240	$155	you save $85	week
9	$270	$185	you save $85	week
10	$300	$215	you save $85	week
11	$330	$245	you save $85	week
12	$360	$250	you save $110	week
13	$390	$250	you save $140	week
14	$420	$250	you save $170	week
15	$450	$280	you save $170	week
16	$480	$310	you save $170	week
17	$510	$340	you save $170	week
18	$540	$370	you save $170	week
19	$570	$375	you save $195	week
20	$600	$375	you save $225	week
21	$630	$375	you save $255	week
22	$660	$385	you save $275	28-day
23	$690	$385	you save $305	28-day
24	$720	$385	you save $335	28-day
25	$750	$385	you save $365	28-day
26	$780	$385	you save $395	28-day
27	$810	$385	you save $425	28-day
28	$840	$385	you save $455	28-day
29	$870	$415	you save $455	day
30	$900	$445	you save $455	day
31	$930	$475	you save $455	day
32	$960	$505	you save $455	day
33	$990	$510	you save $480	week
34	$1,020	$510	you save $510	week
35	$1,050	$510	you save $540	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.