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

From day 4. 4 days at the $20 day rate would be $80, but the weekly rate caps it at $65.

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

From day 15. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $150 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.

Heater

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Peculiar Rentals · Heaters - Direct Fired

Day: $20
Week: $65
28 days: $150

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $80. On the week rate it is $65.

Weekly stops winning on

day 15

15 days at the day rate would be $300. On the 28-day rate it is $150.

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 Heater, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$20	$20	—	day
2	$40	$40	—	day
3	$60	$60	—	day
4	$80	$65	you save $15	week
5	$100	$65	you save $35	week
6	$120	$65	you save $55	week
7	$140	$65	you save $75	week
8	$160	$85	you save $75	week
9	$180	$105	you save $75	week
10	$200	$125	you save $75	week
11	$220	$130	you save $90	week
12	$240	$130	you save $110	week
13	$260	$130	you save $130	week
14	$280	$130	you save $150	week
15	$300	$150	you save $150	28-day
16	$320	$150	you save $170	28-day
17	$340	$150	you save $190	28-day
18	$360	$150	you save $210	28-day
19	$380	$150	you save $230	28-day
20	$400	$150	you save $250	28-day
21	$420	$150	you save $270	28-day
22	$440	$150	you save $290	28-day
23	$460	$150	you save $310	28-day
24	$480	$150	you save $330	28-day
25	$500	$150	you save $350	28-day
26	$520	$150	you save $370	28-day
27	$540	$150	you save $390	28-day
28	$560	$150	you save $410	28-day
29	$580	$170	you save $410	day
30	$600	$190	you save $410	day
31	$620	$210	you save $410	day
32	$640	$215	you save $425	week
33	$660	$215	you save $445	week
34	$680	$215	you save $465	week
35	$700	$215	you save $485	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.