When is it cheaper to rent a 5.0 Cubic Ft Concrete Mixer by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $40 day rate would be $280, but the weekly rate caps it at $250.

When is it cheaper to rent a 5.0 Cubic Ft Concrete Mixer on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $800 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.

5.0 Cubic Ft Concrete Mixer

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Stephen Alexander · Concrete - Mixers

Day: $40
Week: $250
28 days: $800

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $280. On the week rate it is $250.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $920. On the 28-day rate it is $800.

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 5.0 Cubic Ft Concrete Mixer, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$40	$40	—	day
2	$80	$80	—	day
3	$120	$120	—	day
4	$160	$160	—	day
5	$200	$200	—	day
6	$240	$240	—	day
7	$280	$250	you save $30	week
8	$320	$290	you save $30	week
9	$360	$330	you save $30	week
10	$400	$370	you save $30	week
11	$440	$410	you save $30	week
12	$480	$450	you save $30	week
13	$520	$490	you save $30	week
14	$560	$500	you save $60	week
15	$600	$540	you save $60	week
16	$640	$580	you save $60	week
17	$680	$620	you save $60	week
18	$720	$660	you save $60	week
19	$760	$700	you save $60	week
20	$800	$740	you save $60	week
21	$840	$750	you save $90	week
22	$880	$790	you save $90	week
23	$920	$800	you save $120	28-day
24	$960	$800	you save $160	28-day
25	$1,000	$800	you save $200	28-day
26	$1,040	$800	you save $240	28-day
27	$1,080	$800	you save $280	28-day
28	$1,120	$800	you save $320	28-day
29	$1,160	$840	you save $320	day
30	$1,200	$880	you save $320	day
31	$1,240	$920	you save $320	day
32	$1,280	$960	you save $320	day
33	$1,320	$1,000	you save $320	day
34	$1,360	$1,040	you save $320	day
35	$1,400	$1,050	you save $350	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.