When is it cheaper to rent a 8' x 8' Guard Shack / Multi-Use Building on the 28-day rate?

From day 26. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $260 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.

8' x 8' Guard Shack / Multi-Use Building

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JCarr Rentals · Site Support - Job Shacks

Day: $10
Week: $70
28 days: $260

Daily stops winning on

Never, on this card

Seven days at the day rate still cost less than the week rate on this card.

Weekly stops winning on

day 26

26 days at the day rate would be $260. On the 28-day rate it is $260.

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 8' x 8' Guard Shack / Multi-Use Building, 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	$40	—	day
5	$50	$50	—	day
6	$60	$60	—	day
7	$70	$70	—	week
8	$80	$80	—	week
9	$90	$90	—	week
10	$100	$100	—	week
11	$110	$110	—	week
12	$120	$120	—	week
13	$130	$130	—	week
14	$140	$140	—	week
15	$150	$150	—	week
16	$160	$160	—	week
17	$170	$170	—	week
18	$180	$180	—	week
19	$190	$190	—	week
20	$200	$200	—	week
21	$210	$210	—	week
22	$220	$220	—	week
23	$230	$230	—	week
24	$240	$240	—	week
25	$250	$250	—	week
26	$260	$260	—	28-day
27	$270	$260	you save $10	28-day
28	$280	$260	you save $20	28-day
29	$290	$270	you save $20	day
30	$300	$280	you save $20	day
31	$310	$290	you save $20	day
32	$320	$300	you save $20	day
33	$330	$310	you save $20	day
34	$340	$320	you save $20	day
35	$350	$330	you save $20	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 · 26 days: $260
Rental protection (RPP): $39
Service fee: $26
Estimated total: $325

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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.