Chard, South West • England
Chard sits at the southern edge of Somerset, where the TA postcodes meet Dorset and Devon, around fifteen miles south of Taunton on the A30. It's a working market town with straightforward housing stock, which makes it a handy base for crews spread across three counties. KrewBase rents whole serviced houses and flats here, keeps every bill in our name, and sends your company one monthly invoice. Wi-Fi is tested before anyone arrives, parking is checked against the vans, and linen is swapped weekly.
Chard's housing is mostly local-stone terraces around the old centre, post-war semis on the estates, and a scattering of newer builds on the edges of town. For crews, the south and east sides work best: quicker onto the A30 towards Crewkerne and the A358 towards Taunton, with gardens and drives more common than in the tight centre. Our shortlist in Chard is built on: parking for two or more vehicles, a kitchen that handles batch cooking, and beds that aren't bunks.
This corner of Somerset pulls in crews from construction and housing development, food production and agriculture, light manufacturing and maintenance work across rural infrastructure. Because Chard sits close to the Dorset and Devon borders, crews based here often rotate between sites around Crewkerne, Ilminster, Yeovil and Taunton. We keep references generic and the housing practical — that's what matters when the job list changes week to week.
The A30 runs east–west through town and the A358 heads north to the M5 at Taunton in about twenty minutes. Crewkerne station, a few miles east, has trains towards Exeter and London, and Yeovil is roughly ten miles west. If the site sits off the main roads, give us the what3words or postcode when you enquire — we measure shortlisted houses by door-to-gate drive time, not guesswork.
You tell us the headcount, vehicles and start date; we send a shortlist within two hours. The property is let whole to your crew, utilities and council tax sit in our name, and broadband is speed-tested before check-in. Crews of five or more get two bathrooms as standard, plus a weekly clean and fresh linen. Maintenance calls come to us, not your lads on site, and everything lands on one monthly invoice, paid by card and no booking fees. Stays run from a fortnight to as long as the job does.
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.
Yes. Whole-property lets mean your crew comes and goes without disturbing anyone, and we look for houses with decent blackout options and off-road parking so a 4am return doesn't wake the street. Mention the shift pattern when you enquire and we'll shortlist accordingly.
Chard itself, plus Crewkerne, Ilminster, South Petherton and the villages along the A30, A358 and A303. Jobs nearer Yeovil or Taunton are no problem — we simply pull stock from those towns instead and still send you one monthly invoice.
Genuinely included. Gas, electric, water and council tax are in our name, so there's nothing for the crew to set up or cancel. We test the broadband before check-in and top it up if a property falls short, because a crew without working Wi-Fi on a wet Tuesday is a crew that rings you, not us.
Four things: headcount, vehicle count and sizes, the site location or postcode, and your start date. With those we can shortlist within two hours and confirm availability. If dates might slip, say so — we'd rather hold options than book you into the wrong week.
For stays over a week, usually yes. A whole house costs less per head than hotel rooms, gives the crew a kitchen and living room, and means no one sleeps next to a wedding party. Hotels suit one-night stops; a crew house suits a job. Parking for vans is the clincher — hotels rarely have it.
In most cases, yes — extensions are common and we'd rather you stay put than rebook. Give us as much notice as you can and we'll confirm the extra weeks on the same one-invoice setup. If the property genuinely can't extend, we'll offer alternatives before your booking ends.
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Need beds in Chard? 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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