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

From day 4. 4 days at the $18 day rate would be $72, but the weekly rate caps it at $55.

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

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $166 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.

Miter Saw

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Calvin Barendregt · Saws - Mitre Saws

Day: $18
Week: $55
28 days: $166

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $72. On the week rate it is $55.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $396. On the 28-day rate it is $166.

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 Miter Saw, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$18	$18	—	day
2	$36	$36	—	day
3	$54	$54	—	day
4	$72	$55	you save $17	week
5	$90	$55	you save $35	week
6	$108	$55	you save $53	week
7	$126	$55	you save $71	week
8	$144	$73	you save $71	week
9	$162	$91	you save $71	week
10	$180	$109	you save $71	week
11	$198	$110	you save $88	week
12	$216	$110	you save $106	week
13	$234	$110	you save $124	week
14	$252	$110	you save $142	week
15	$270	$128	you save $142	week
16	$288	$146	you save $142	week
17	$306	$164	you save $142	week
18	$324	$165	you save $159	week
19	$342	$165	you save $177	week
20	$360	$165	you save $195	week
21	$378	$165	you save $213	week
22	$396	$166	you save $230	28-day
23	$414	$166	you save $248	28-day
24	$432	$166	you save $266	28-day
25	$450	$166	you save $284	28-day
26	$468	$166	you save $302	28-day
27	$486	$166	you save $320	28-day
28	$504	$166	you save $338	28-day
29	$522	$184	you save $338	day
30	$540	$202	you save $338	day
31	$558	$220	you save $338	day
32	$576	$221	you save $355	week
33	$594	$221	you save $373	week
34	$612	$221	you save $391	week
35	$630	$221	you save $409	week

Rental rates only. Protection and the marketplace service fee are added on top — see the checkout figure below.

What checkout will quote you

Rental · 22 days: $166
Rental protection (RPP): $24.90
Service fee: $16.60
Estimated total: $207.50

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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.