When is it cheaper to rent a Bauer 50ft drain auger by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $60 day rate would be $240, but the weekly rate caps it at $210.

When is it cheaper to rent a Bauer 50ft drain auger on the 28-day rate?

From day 23. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $700 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.

Bauer 50ft drain auger

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K&B Rentals LLC · Plumbing and Electrical - Augers

Day: $60
Week: $210
28 days: $700

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $240. On the week rate it is $210.

Weekly stops winning on

day 23

23 days at the day rate would be $1,380. On the 28-day rate it is $700.

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 Bauer 50ft drain auger, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$60	$60	—	day
2	$120	$120	—	day
3	$180	$180	—	day
4	$240	$210	you save $30	week
5	$300	$210	you save $90	week
6	$360	$210	you save $150	week
7	$420	$210	you save $210	week
8	$480	$270	you save $210	week
9	$540	$330	you save $210	week
10	$600	$390	you save $210	week
11	$660	$420	you save $240	week
12	$720	$420	you save $300	week
13	$780	$420	you save $360	week
14	$840	$420	you save $420	week
15	$900	$480	you save $420	week
16	$960	$540	you save $420	week
17	$1,020	$600	you save $420	week
18	$1,080	$630	you save $450	week
19	$1,140	$630	you save $510	week
20	$1,200	$630	you save $570	week
21	$1,260	$630	you save $630	week
22	$1,320	$690	you save $630	week
23	$1,380	$700	you save $680	28-day
24	$1,440	$700	you save $740	28-day
25	$1,500	$700	you save $800	28-day
26	$1,560	$700	you save $860	28-day
27	$1,620	$700	you save $920	28-day
28	$1,680	$700	you save $980	28-day
29	$1,740	$760	you save $980	day
30	$1,800	$820	you save $980	day
31	$1,860	$880	you save $980	day
32	$1,920	$910	you save $1,010	week
33	$1,980	$910	you save $1,070	week
34	$2,040	$910	you save $1,130	week
35	$2,100	$910	you save $1,190	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 · 23 days: $700
Rental protection (RPP): $105
Service fee: $70
Estimated total: $875

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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.