When is it cheaper to rent a 5-AMP 3/8-INCH ELECTRIC DRILL by the week than by the day?

From day 4. 4 days at the $10 day rate would be $40, but the weekly rate caps it at $30.

When is it cheaper to rent a 5-AMP 3/8-INCH ELECTRIC DRILL on the 28-day rate?

From day 22. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $100 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.

5-AMP 3/8-INCH ELECTRIC DRILL

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Josh L · Drills - Electric

Day: $10
Week: $30
28 days: $100

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $40. On the week rate it is $30.

Weekly stops winning on

day 22

22 days at the day rate would be $220. On the 28-day rate it is $100.

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 5-AMP 3/8-INCH ELECTRIC DRILL, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$10	$10	—	day
2	$20	$20	—	day
3	$30	$30	—	day
4	$40	$30	you save $10	week
5	$50	$30	you save $20	week
6	$60	$30	you save $30	week
7	$70	$30	you save $40	week
8	$80	$40	you save $40	week
9	$90	$50	you save $40	week
10	$100	$60	you save $40	week
11	$110	$60	you save $50	week
12	$120	$60	you save $60	week
13	$130	$60	you save $70	week
14	$140	$60	you save $80	week
15	$150	$70	you save $80	week
16	$160	$80	you save $80	week
17	$170	$90	you save $80	week
18	$180	$90	you save $90	week
19	$190	$90	you save $100	week
20	$200	$90	you save $110	week
21	$210	$90	you save $120	week
22	$220	$100	you save $120	28-day
23	$230	$100	you save $130	28-day
24	$240	$100	you save $140	28-day
25	$250	$100	you save $150	28-day
26	$260	$100	you save $160	28-day
27	$270	$100	you save $170	28-day
28	$280	$100	you save $180	28-day
29	$290	$110	you save $180	day
30	$300	$120	you save $180	day
31	$310	$130	you save $180	day
32	$320	$130	you save $190	week
33	$330	$130	you save $200	week
34	$340	$130	you save $210	week
35	$350	$130	you save $220	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.