Coleraine, Northern Ireland • Northern Ireland
Coleraine is a university town on the River Bann in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in the BT postcode area, where the A26 and A29 meet, a few miles inland from Portstewart and Portrush on the Causeway Coast and around 55 miles north-west of Belfast. KrewBase houses crews in whole properties here, bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in and one monthly invoice to your company.
The town has a solid mix: traditional terraces and semis around the centre and the Waterside, newer estates on the outskirts toward Mountsandel and Millburn, and purpose-built flats near the university campus that suit smaller crews, particularly outside term time when they are not competing with students for the same keys. Between them there is almost always something that fits the crew size and the budget, which keeps options open even for awkward bookings.
We filter for the working details: a drive or guaranteed parking for the vans, a dining table for the full crew, and two bathrooms whenever five or more are booked in. Houses on the right side of the Bann for the site save the crew a bridge crossing twice a day, and we plan for that when we shortlist rather than leaving it to luck.
Construction and housing work in and around the town runs year round, and the university campus, public buildings and healthcare facilities bring in longer facilities and maintenance contracts. Agri-food businesses along the Bann valley and logistics running the A26 and A29 keep other crews on the move for months at a stretch. It is steady, year-round work, and the bookings it generates tend to run long enough to make a proper house worthwhile.
Coleraine is also the practical base for coastal work: Portstewart, Portrush and the Causeway Coast are minutes away, so we house crews working across the whole Causeway Coast area from one settled town base with proper shops, suppliers and a rail connection on the doorstep. That reach, combined with the town's own amenities, is why so many coastal contracts anchor here rather than in the smaller resorts.
The A26 and A29 cross here, linking Ballymoney, Ballymena and the M2 corridor to the east with Maghera, Cookstown and the west. The A2 runs north to Portstewart, Portrush and along the coast toward Bushmills and Ballycastle, while the railway connects Belfast one way and Derry~Londonderry the other, which suits crew rotations and site visits. Between them, most contracts in the north-west are a civilised run from a well-chosen house.
Most sites in the area are a short drive, but the right side of town still matters - give us the gate location and we shortlist by real drive time, whether that is the Waterside, the town centre side or out toward the coast road. A bridge crossing twice a day is a small thing that stops feeling small by Thursday.
Your crew lets the whole property: no shared flats, no strangers, no landlord's furniture in the room you needed for a third bed. Bills for gas, electric, water and council tax are in our name, broadband is installed and speed-tested before check-in, and parking is confirmed against your vehicle list. Five or more in the crew means two bathrooms. The setup stays the same whether the booking runs three weeks or nine months.
Weekly cleaning and fresh linen are included, and any maintenance is ours to deal with, not your gaffer's. The company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew size or stay - the booking starts and ends when the job does, and the invoice matches. One invoice, one contact, no deposits dressed up as fees - the paperwork stays as simple as the arrangement.
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.
Within two working hours of receiving the site location, headcount and dates, we send a shortlist of whole houses or flats that have already passed our checks on parking, broadband speed and bathroom count. In a town with this much contract work, the practical options go early, so it pays to move on the shortlist.
The town centre side, the Waterside, Mountsandel, Millburn and the properties along the coast road toward Portstewart and Portrush. We choose the base by your site gate - a crew working Ballymoney should not be crossing the Bann twice a day if a Waterside house avoids it.
We verify it against your vehicle list before check-in, favouring houses with drives or guaranteed spaces for van crews. Around the older centre some streets are tighter, so we are upfront about which shortlisted houses park two vehicles comfortably and which only just manage one.
All of them - gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband in our name and in the rate. The Wi-Fi is speed-tested before the crew arrives, and because the university keeps broadband infrastructure competitive here, speeds are rarely the weak link.
That is the standard setup: one monthly invoice covering rent and every included bill, paid by card, with no booking fees. We can reference your project or cost code, and your accounts team has a single point of contact for the whole booking, whether it runs three weeks or nine months.
No minimums of any kind. Two people for a short job get the same whole-property setup, the same bills-included arrangement and the same single monthly invoice as a large crew on a long contract. If the headcount changes mid-job, tell us and we will right-size the house.
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Working in Coleraine? You are about 47 miles from Belfast, so we often shortlist from both. Have a look at our contractor accommodation Belfast page too — whole houses, bills in, one invoice, whatever the size of the crew.
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Need beds in Coleraine? 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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