Durham, North East • England
Durham sits where the A1(M) meets the River Wear in County Durham, England, its DH postcodes covering everything from cathedral-side terraces to the estates out at Belmont and Gilesgate. Crews on hospital work, university jobs and housing schemes across the county base up here because the road and rail links are hard to beat. KrewBase supplies whole serviced houses and flats in Durham, bills in our name, one monthly invoice.
Durham's housing stock is a mix of handsome stone terraces around the city centre, Framwellgate and the Viaduct, and larger interwar semis and post-war estates at Gilesgate, Belmont and Carrville on the eastern side. For crews, the eastern estates tend to work best: easier parking, bigger kitchens and living rooms, and quicker access to the A1(M). City-centre terraces suit smaller teams on short jobs who want to walk to the station and the shops.
Every house we put forward for a Durham booking is checked for the things that actually matter on a job: off-road or permit-free parking for real vans, Wi-Fi that has been speed-tested before check-in, and two bathrooms when five or more are staying. If a property near the hospital or along the A690 corridor is what the job needs, that is where we look first.
A county city with a big teaching hospital, a busy university estate and constant housing development around its edges, Durham pulls in trades of every kind. Construction and fit-out teams work on new housing along the A690 and A167 corridors, while maintenance crews look after student housing, college buildings and NHS property. There is steady infrastructure work along the A1(M) and on the rail line, and crews covering sites across County Durham often base in Durham because it has the shops, takeaways and facilities a crew needs at the end of a shift.
The A1(M) runs along the east side of the city with junction 62 on the doorstep, the A690 heads east to Sunderland, and the A167 links Durham north to Chester-le-Street and south towards Darlington. Durham station sits on the East Coast Main Line, so Newcastle is around fifteen minutes by train and London a little over two and a half hours. City-centre traffic and the one-way system can slow the morning run, so for tight start times we shortlist houses by real drive time from the site rather than straight-line distance.
You get the whole property, not rooms in someone else's house. Bills — gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband — go in our name, so there is nothing for your lads to set up or chase. Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, parking is checked against the vehicles you actually run, and a five-plus crew gets two bathrooms as standard. A weekly clean and fresh linen are included, and any maintenance lands with us, not your supervisor.
You receive one monthly invoice covering everything — rent, bills, cleaning and linen — paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay. Send us the site postcode, headcount and dates and we will come back with a shortlist inside two working hours. Extensions and crew changes are handled on the same invoice with a quick call.
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.
For most Durham bookings we turn a shortlist around inside two working hours of getting your site postcode, headcount and dates. Once you pick a property, paperwork is same-day and crews can usually check in within 48 hours. Extensions are handled on the same one monthly invoice, so nothing needs renegotiating mid-job.
Yes. We cover the city itself plus Belmont, Gilesgate, Carrville, Framwellgate and the villages along the A690 and A167 corridors, out towards Langley Park, Witton Gilbert and Chester-le-Street. If the drive to site works from an address, it goes on the shortlist — matched by real drive time, not just the town name.
Parking is checked before we send you any property in Durham. We match the house against the vehicles your crew actually runs — Transit, tipper or a row of pickups — and if the parking will not work we do not put the property on the list. On-street only does not automatically rule a house out, but we will tell you honestly.
Yes. Gas, electric, water, council tax and broadband are in our name and included in the rate. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in so your lads are not hotspotting on day one, and everything rolls into one monthly invoice with no surprise extras appearing mid-contract.
That is how we work. One monthly invoice covers rent, bills, cleaning and linen, paid by card so your accounts team has time to process it. No booking fees, no deposit chasing, no per-person charges — just a single predictable bill each month whatever the crew size does.
We do. Your crew reports a problem to us, our contractors fix it, and your supervisor never has to get involved. It is one of the main reasons contractors use KrewBase instead of a private let — a working house is our job, not yours.
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Need beds in Durham? 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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