Andover, South East • England
Andover, in the Test Valley of north Hampshire, sits in the SP postcode area where the A34 and A303 meet — within twenty minutes of Basingstoke or Newbury and within reach of Salisbury and Winchester. It's a practical base for crews covering jobs across Hampshire, Wiltshire and Berkshire. KrewBase puts working crews into whole serviced houses and flats here: bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in, parking checked for vans, and one monthly invoice for your office.
Andover grew steadily through the twentieth century, so the stock is a good mix: brick terraces in the older streets near the town centre, semis along the main roads out, and large post-war estates with gardens, garages and proper driveways. For crews we lean towards the estates and the newer edges of town: space for a van, neighbours who don't mind a 5am start, and room inside for drying kit. We shortlist only properties with the basics done right — parking that works, broadband that's actually quick, and a second bathroom for bigger crews.
Andover's position at the A34/A303 junction makes it a natural base for a wide belt of work: distribution and warehouse contracts along the trunk roads, construction and housing development across north Hampshire, utilities and grid maintenance on the rural network, and the steady stream of NHS, school and retail maintenance that any town of this size generates. Some crews are here for a few weeks on one site; others rotate between jobs across the region for months. Either way they need a house that works at 11pm as well as 7am.
The A34 passes just east of town and the A303 runs along the southern edge — together they put Basingstoke, Newbury, Salisbury and the M3 within half an hour or so, and Winchester isn't much further. The station has regular trains towards Basingstoke, where London and the south coast connect. For jobs deeper into the countryside it's a van job, and we plan around that.
Give us the site postcode and we'll shortlist houses by real drive time at shift-change hours. On roads like the A303 the commute swings a lot between seasons and times of day, so we'd rather measure it than guess from a map. A crew near the right junction out of town can save twenty minutes a morning over one that's technically closer but sits on the wrong side of the traffic — that difference adds up to a full working day every fortnight, and it's why we check the route before we quote.
KrewBase takes the whole property in our name — house or flat — and the bills (council tax, gas, electric, water, broadband, TV licence) stay in our name too. Your crew gets tested Wi-Fi before anyone arrives, parking confirmed against the vehicles on the job, two bathrooms for crews of five or more, and a weekly clean with fresh linen. Anything that breaks is our call to fix, not the crew's and not your office's. You get one monthly invoice, paid by card, no booking fees, and there's no minimum crew size or length of stay.
Send us the requirement — town, dates, headcount, vehicles and any shift pattern we should know about. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold, not a search we have just started. You pick, we confirm, the crew moves in, and we stay on it for the length of the job. One monthly invoice, card payment for limited companies, no booking fees.
About two hours from getting the site postcode, crew size and dates. We'll send whole properties that fit — houses on the estates, mostly, where parking and space are right for working crews. Once you choose, the agreement is signed and the house is normally ready within a few working days.
The whole town plus Picket Piece, Charlton and the villages within an easy drive — Whitchurch, Hurstbourne Tarrant, and towards Stockbridge if the site sits that way. We draw the circle by drive time from your postcode, not by boundary lines, so a crew working on the Wiltshire side gets a shortlist that actually suits the commute.
Yes. Tell us what you're running and we shortlist driveways that genuinely fit — the post-war estates around Andover are strong on garages, drives and wide kerbs. Parking is verified before check-in against the actual vehicles, so nobody arrives to find a 'driveway' that takes a hatchback and nothing bigger.
That's how it normally works. Everything — rent, bills, broadband, the weekly clean — lands on one monthly invoice to your accounts team, paid by card. No booking fees, no add-ons, no pile of utility paperwork. The crew lives in the house; your office pays one supplier once a month.
Usually, yes — overruns are the rule in this trade, not the exception. Tell us the new dates as soon as you know them and we'll extend the let and the invoice schedule. If the house itself is committed afterwards, we'll line up an alternative close by so the crew moves once, if at all, and keeps working.
A hotel room gives you a bed and a TV. A crew house gives the team a kitchen, a washing machine, a lounge and a driveway — plus the freedom to keep shift hours without tiptoeing around other guests. For stays past a week or two it's usually cheaper per head as well, especially once parking and laundry are counted in.
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Need beds in Andover? Send us the dates, the headcount and the shift pattern. We come back within 2 hours with a shortlist from property we already hold.
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