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

From day 5. 5 days at the $40 day rate would be $200, but the weekly rate caps it at $180.

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

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $600 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.

power washer

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ryan fields · Pressure Washers

Day: $40
Week: $180
28 days: $600

Daily stops winning on

day 5

5 days at the day rate would be $200. On the week rate it is $180.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $920. On the 28-day rate it is $600.

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 power washer, 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	$180	you save $20	week
6	$240	$180	you save $60	week
7	$280	$180	you save $100	week
8	$320	$220	you save $100	week
9	$360	$260	you save $100	week
10	$400	$300	you save $100	week
11	$440	$340	you save $100	week
12	$480	$360	you save $120	week
13	$520	$360	you save $160	week
14	$560	$360	you save $200	week
15	$600	$400	you save $200	week
16	$640	$440	you save $200	week
17	$680	$480	you save $200	week
18	$720	$520	you save $200	week
19	$760	$540	you save $220	week
20	$800	$540	you save $260	week
21	$840	$540	you save $300	week
22	$880	$580	you save $300	week
23	$920	$600	you save $320	28-day
24	$960	$600	you save $360	28-day
25	$1,000	$600	you save $400	28-day
26	$1,040	$600	you save $440	28-day
27	$1,080	$600	you save $480	28-day
28	$1,120	$600	you save $520	28-day
29	$1,160	$640	you save $520	day
30	$1,200	$680	you save $520	day
31	$1,240	$720	you save $520	day
32	$1,280	$760	you save $520	day
33	$1,320	$780	you save $540	week
34	$1,360	$780	you save $580	week
35	$1,400	$780	you save $620	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.