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.

HOOVER CleanSlate Pro Portable Spot Cleaner

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Day
$20
Week
$65
28 days
$195

Daily stops winning on

day 4

4 days at the day rate would be $80. On the week rate it is $65.

Weekly stops winning on

day 18

18 days at the day rate would be $360. On the 28-day rate it is $195.

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 HOOVER CleanSlate Pro Portable Spot Cleaner, days 1 to 35
DaysAt the day rateOn the ladderDifferenceRate in play
1$20$20—day
2$40$40—day
3$60$60—day
4$80$65you save $15week
5$100$65you save $35week
6$120$65you save $55week
7$140$65you save $75week
8$160$85you save $75week
9$180$105you save $75week
10$200$125you save $75week
11$220$130you save $90week
12$240$130you save $110week
13$260$130you save $130week
14$280$130you save $150week
15$300$150you save $150week
16$320$170you save $150week
17$340$190you save $150week
18$360$195you save $16528-day
19$380$195you save $18528-day
20$400$195you save $20528-day
21$420$195you save $22528-day
22$440$195you save $24528-day
23$460$195you save $26528-day
24$480$195you save $28528-day
25$500$195you save $30528-day
26$520$195you save $32528-day
27$540$195you save $34528-day
28$560$195you save $36528-day
29$580$215you save $365day
30$600$235you save $365day
31$620$255you save $365day
32$640$260you save $380week
33$660$260you save $400week
34$680$260you save $420week
35$700$260you save $440week

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.