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.

Drain Auger

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Ron Stack · Plumbing and Electrical - Augers

Day
$50
Week
$120
28 days
$400

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $150. On the week rate it is $120.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $1,100. On the 28-day rate it is $400.

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 Drain Auger, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$50$50—day
2$100$100—day
3$150$120you save $30week
4$200$120you save $80week
5$250$120you save $130week
6$300$120you save $180week
7$350$120you save $230week
8$400$170you save $230week
9$450$220you save $230week
10$500$240you save $260week
11$550$240you save $310week
12$600$240you save $360week
13$650$240you save $410week
14$700$240you save $460week
15$750$290you save $460week
16$800$340you save $460week
17$850$360you save $490week
18$900$360you save $540week
19$950$360you save $590week
20$1,000$360you save $640week
21$1,050$360you save $690week
22$1,100$400you save $70028-day
23$1,150$400you save $75028-day
24$1,200$400you save $80028-day
25$1,250$400you save $85028-day
26$1,300$400you save $90028-day
27$1,350$400you save $95028-day
28$1,400$400you save $1,00028-day
29$1,450$450you save $1,000day
30$1,500$500you save $1,000day
31$1,550$520you save $1,030week
32$1,600$520you save $1,080week
33$1,650$520you save $1,130week
34$1,700$520you save $1,180week
35$1,750$520you save $1,230week

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.