When is it cheaper to rent a Drill / Driver Makita 18v by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $25 day rate would be $100, but the weekly rate caps it at $90.

When is it cheaper to rent a Drill / Driver Makita 18v on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $280 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.

Drill / Driver Makita 18v

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Alex Kwmuntis · Drills - Drill Bits

Day: $25
Week: $90
28 days: $280

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $100. On the week rate it is $90.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $550. On the 28-day rate it is $280.

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 Drill / Driver Makita 18v, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$25	$25	—	day
2	$50	$50	—	day
3	$75	$75	—	day
4	$100	$90	you save $10	week
5	$125	$90	you save $35	week
6	$150	$90	you save $60	week
7	$175	$90	you save $85	week
8	$200	$115	you save $85	week
9	$225	$140	you save $85	week
10	$250	$165	you save $85	week
11	$275	$180	you save $95	week
12	$300	$180	you save $120	week
13	$325	$180	you save $145	week
14	$350	$180	you save $170	week
15	$375	$205	you save $170	week
16	$400	$230	you save $170	week
17	$425	$255	you save $170	week
18	$450	$270	you save $180	week
19	$475	$270	you save $205	week
20	$500	$270	you save $230	week
21	$525	$270	you save $255	week
22	$550	$280	you save $270	28-day
23	$575	$280	you save $295	28-day
24	$600	$280	you save $320	28-day
25	$625	$280	you save $345	28-day
26	$650	$280	you save $370	28-day
27	$675	$280	you save $395	28-day
28	$700	$280	you save $420	28-day
29	$725	$305	you save $420	day
30	$750	$330	you save $420	day
31	$775	$355	you save $420	day
32	$800	$370	you save $430	week
33	$825	$370	you save $455	week
34	$850	$370	you save $480	week
35	$875	$370	you save $505	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.