When is it cheaper to rent a 150kW Electric Heater by the week than by the day?

From day 3. 3 days at the $395 day rate would be $1,185, but the weekly rate caps it at $1,050.

When is it cheaper to rent a 150kW Electric Heater on the 28-day rate?

From day 16. At that point the week-and-day composition reaches the $2,875 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.

150kW Electric Heater

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2Quip Corp - DBA RME & 2QUIP.AI · Heaters - Electric

Day: $395
Week: $1,050
28 days: $2,875

Daily stops winning on

day 3

3 days at the day rate would be $1,185. On the week rate it is $1,050.

Weekly stops winning on

day 16

16 days at the day rate would be $6,320. On the 28-day rate it is $2,875.

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 150kW Electric Heater, days 1 to 35
Days	At the day rate	On the ladder	Difference	Rate in play
1	$395	$395	—	day
2	$790	$790	—	day
3	$1,185	$1,050	you save $135	week
4	$1,580	$1,050	you save $530	week
5	$1,975	$1,050	you save $925	week
6	$2,370	$1,050	you save $1,320	week
7	$2,765	$1,050	you save $1,715	week
8	$3,160	$1,445	you save $1,715	week
9	$3,555	$1,840	you save $1,715	week
10	$3,950	$2,100	you save $1,850	week
11	$4,345	$2,100	you save $2,245	week
12	$4,740	$2,100	you save $2,640	week
13	$5,135	$2,100	you save $3,035	week
14	$5,530	$2,100	you save $3,430	week
15	$5,925	$2,495	you save $3,430	week
16	$6,320	$2,875	you save $3,445	28-day
17	$6,715	$2,875	you save $3,840	28-day
18	$7,110	$2,875	you save $4,235	28-day
19	$7,505	$2,875	you save $4,630	28-day
20	$7,900	$2,875	you save $5,025	28-day
21	$8,295	$2,875	you save $5,420	28-day
22	$8,690	$2,875	you save $5,815	28-day
23	$9,085	$2,875	you save $6,210	28-day
24	$9,480	$2,875	you save $6,605	28-day
25	$9,875	$2,875	you save $7,000	28-day
26	$10,270	$2,875	you save $7,395	28-day
27	$10,665	$2,875	you save $7,790	28-day
28	$11,060	$2,875	you save $8,185	28-day
29	$11,455	$3,270	you save $8,185	day
30	$11,850	$3,665	you save $8,185	day
31	$12,245	$3,925	you save $8,320	week
32	$12,640	$3,925	you save $8,715	week
33	$13,035	$3,925	you save $9,110	week
34	$13,430	$3,925	you save $9,505	week
35	$13,825	$3,925	you save $9,900	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 · 16 days: $2,875
Rental protection (RPP): $431.25
Estimated total: $3,306.25

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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.