When is it cheaper to rent a 20V DeWALT 1/4in cordless impact driver by the week than by the day?

From day 2. 2 days at the $30 day rate would be $60, but the weekly rate caps it at $50.

When is it cheaper to rent a 20V DeWALT 1/4in cordless impact driver on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $150 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.

20V DeWALT 1/4in cordless impact driver

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Jace Tubb · Air Tools - Impact Sockets

Day: $30
Week: $50
28 days: $150

Daily stops winning on

day 2

2 days at the day rate would be $60. On the week rate it is $50.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $480. On the 28-day rate it is $150.

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 20V DeWALT 1/4in cordless impact driver, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$30	$30	—	day
2	$60	$50	you save $10	week
3	$90	$50	you save $40	week
4	$120	$50	you save $70	week
5	$150	$50	you save $100	week
6	$180	$50	you save $130	week
7	$210	$50	you save $160	week
8	$240	$80	you save $160	week
9	$270	$100	you save $170	week
10	$300	$100	you save $200	week
11	$330	$100	you save $230	week
12	$360	$100	you save $260	week
13	$390	$100	you save $290	week
14	$420	$100	you save $320	week
15	$450	$130	you save $320	week
16	$480	$150	you save $330	28-day
17	$510	$150	you save $360	28-day
18	$540	$150	you save $390	28-day
19	$570	$150	you save $420	28-day
20	$600	$150	you save $450	28-day
21	$630	$150	you save $480	28-day
22	$660	$150	you save $510	28-day
23	$690	$150	you save $540	28-day
24	$720	$150	you save $570	28-day
25	$750	$150	you save $600	28-day
26	$780	$150	you save $630	28-day
27	$810	$150	you save $660	28-day
28	$840	$150	you save $690	28-day
29	$870	$180	you save $690	day
30	$900	$200	you save $700	week
31	$930	$200	you save $730	week
32	$960	$200	you save $760	week
33	$990	$200	you save $790	week
34	$1,020	$200	you save $820	week
35	$1,050	$200	you save $850	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.