When is it cheaper to rent a Heavy-Duty carpet cleaner by the week than by the day?

From day 7. 7 days at the $45 day rate would be $315, but the weekly rate caps it at $280.

When is it cheaper to rent a Heavy-Duty carpet cleaner on the 28-day rate?

From day 27. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $1,080 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.

Heavy-Duty carpet cleaner

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Day: $45
Week: $280
28 days: $1,080

Daily stops winning on

day 7

7 days at the day rate would be $315. On the week rate it is $280.

Weekly stops winning on

day 27

27 days at the day rate would be $1,215. On the 28-day rate it is $1,080.

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 Heavy-Duty carpet cleaner, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$45	$45	—	day
2	$90	$90	—	day
3	$135	$135	—	day
4	$180	$180	—	day
5	$225	$225	—	day
6	$270	$270	—	day
7	$315	$280	you save $35	week
8	$360	$325	you save $35	week
9	$405	$370	you save $35	week
10	$450	$415	you save $35	week
11	$495	$460	you save $35	week
12	$540	$505	you save $35	week
13	$585	$550	you save $35	week
14	$630	$560	you save $70	week
15	$675	$605	you save $70	week
16	$720	$650	you save $70	week
17	$765	$695	you save $70	week
18	$810	$740	you save $70	week
19	$855	$785	you save $70	week
20	$900	$830	you save $70	week
21	$945	$840	you save $105	week
22	$990	$885	you save $105	week
23	$1,035	$930	you save $105	week
24	$1,080	$975	you save $105	week
25	$1,125	$1,020	you save $105	week
26	$1,170	$1,065	you save $105	week
27	$1,215	$1,080	you save $135	28-day
28	$1,260	$1,080	you save $180	28-day
29	$1,305	$1,125	you save $180	day
30	$1,350	$1,170	you save $180	day
31	$1,395	$1,215	you save $180	day
32	$1,440	$1,260	you save $180	day
33	$1,485	$1,305	you save $180	day
34	$1,530	$1,350	you save $180	day
35	$1,575	$1,360	you save $215	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 · 27 days: $1,080
Rental protection (RPP): $162
Service fee: $108
Estimated total: $1,350

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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.