Home Depot Tool Rental Prices, Rental Periods and Fees
Home Depot tool rental for common DIY tools runs about $28 to $76 for four hours and $40 to $109 for a full day, based on rates Home Depot listed in 2025 and 2026.
Prices are set store by store. One pressure washer cost $41 a day at some San Jose-area stores and $50 at others on the same date.
Every rental also comes with a refundable deposit and sales tax, plus an optional 15% damage protection charge.
Home Depot Tool Rental Rates by Tool
Home Depot doesn’t publish a national price list. Its own FAQ just says prices vary by tool and points you to the website or your local store.
The website does show each store’s rates, and the Internet Archive has saved some of those responses from Home Depot’s rental pricing service. These are the 4-hour, day and week rates it returned on the dates shown.
| Tool and date | 4 hours | Day | Week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Electric cement mixer, Jun 2026 | $40 | $57 | $228 |
| PRO floor stripper, Jun 2026 | $76 | $109 | $436 |
| Stump grinder, May 2026 | $132 | $188 | $752 |
| 19 ft scissor lift, Mar 2026 | $199 | $199 | $398 |
| Electric pressure washer, Jul 2025 | $33 | $47 | $188 |
| Gas pressure washer, Jul 2025 | $62 | $89 | $356 |
| Rug Doctor carpet cleaner, Aug 2025 | $28 | $40 | $160 |
| Rear tine tiller, Apr 2025 | $76 | $109 | $436 |
| Lawn aerator, Aug 2025 | $75 | $107 | $428 |
| 4-wheel dolly, Aug 2025 | $11 | $15 | $60 |
All of these come from Atlanta-area stores except the floor stripper, which is from San Jose-area stores. The cement mixer row, for example, matches the archived rate data for five Atlanta stores on June 2, 2026. The gas pressure washer is the 2,000 to 3,000 PSI class.
Deposits follow the size of the tool. They ran $10 for the dolly, $50 for the mixer, carpet cleaner and electric washer, $100 to $150 for gas and floor machines, and $250 to $300 for the stump grinder and scissor lift.
How Longer Rentals Get Cheaper
Home Depot rents tools in 4-hour, daily, weekly and monthly periods. Line the rates up and they follow a fixed pattern.
- 4 hours costs about 70% of a day. The mixer is $40 for 4 hours and $57 for a day.
- A week costs 4 day rates. $228 for the mixer, so days 5, 6 and 7 are free.
- 4 weeks costs 3 week rates. $684 for the mixer, the price of 12 days.
Every tool in the table except the scissor lift follows those ratios. That gives two practical rules. If a job might run past four hours, the full day costs only about 43% more, so take the day. And from the fourth day on, the weekly rate costs the same or less than day rates.
Big equipment uses a different formula. Boom lifts and mini excavators priced 4 hours at 75% of a day, a week at 3 days and 4 weeks at about 7.5 days. The 19-foot scissor lift is an outlier, with no 4-hour discount, a week at 2 days and 4 weeks at 3 days.
Trucks get no long-rental break at all. A Load ‘N Go flatbed listed $129 a day and $903 a week in 2025, exactly seven days, which is why the truck rental breakdown is a separate calculation.
Why Your Store’s Price May Differ
Rates are local. Home Depot’s San Jose-area stores show it clearly, with gaps of about 6% to 22% between stores a few miles apart on the same day.
Reviewed’s September 2026 rental guide says the same thing, telling readers to check homedepot.com for their store’s current rates before they go.
The tool page shows prices for whichever store you’ve selected. Switching between two or three nearby stores takes a minute and can save as much as 20% on a multi-day rental.
Deposits, Damage Protection and Tax
The deposit goes on a credit card, and Pro Xtra members with enough yearly spending pay far less. Home Depot’s tool rental FAQ says debit and gift cards aren’t accepted at rental time, though debit works for paying the rental fees when you return the tool. You’ll also need a government photo ID in most states.
Damage protection is optional and costs 15% of the rental price. It isn’t insurance, and it doesn’t cover theft, misuse or neglect.
Home Depot’s own estimates show how the pieces stack up. One July 2026 estimate for an Illinois store broke down like this:
| Line | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rental fee | $64.00 |
| Damage protection, 15% | $9.60 |
| Sales tax on the rental, 8% | $5.12 |
| Total charged | $78.72 |
| Deposit held, refundable | $50.00 |
The total is worked out from the estimate’s line items. A September 2026 estimate for a Washington store had the same shape: $53 rental, $7.95 protection and $5.59 tax, for $66.54. In both, the tax applied to the rental fee and not to the protection charge.
With damage protection, plan on about a quarter more than the posted rate, plus the deposit.
Late Returns and Extra Charges
A late tool keeps billing. The rental agreement charges additional rental fees until the tool comes back, until Home Depot has collected the tool’s value, or until 30 days pass, whichever comes first.
Extending needs Home Depot’s written approval before the rental period ends. A phone call the next morning doesn’t count.
The agreement lists a few other charges to avoid:
- A cleaning charge if the tool comes back dirty
- A lost-key fee for equipment returned without its key
- The cost of fuel you used, for gas-powered tools
- A trip charge if delivered equipment isn’t ready at the scheduled pickup time
A muddy aerator or a tiller with an empty tank is the easiest way to pay more than the posted rate. A quick hose-down and a gas can stop at the end of the day are cheaper.
Reserving Online and Rental Hours
Many tools can be reserved online for pickup, and larger equipment can be delivered to the job site. If plans change, Home Depot’s refund policy says an online tool rental reservation’s deposit is released in full when you cancel.
Tool Rental Centers keep the same hours as their store and are open seven days a week. Holidays shorten them too, so check the holiday hours before planning a return around Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve.
Some equipment requires identity verification through CLEAR, which uses a U.S. driver’s license and a selfie. It’s worth doing before you arrive if the tool page asks for it.
Rent or Buy the Tool
The rates make the break-even easy to work out. Four day rentals of the electric pressure washer cost $188 before tax and protection, so if you’d use one four or more days a year and a comparable washer costs less than that, buying pays off in the first year.
For tools you’d need more than twice a year, I’d buy a budget version instead of renting. Renting wins for the big, single-job machines like stump grinders, floor strippers and scissor lifts, where the purchase price runs far past a few days of rent.
