Earlston, Scotland • Scotland
Earlston sits where the A68 meets the A697 in the Scottish Borders, a small market town in TD postcode country roughly 35 miles south-east of Edinburgh. It's stone cottages and quiet streets rather than big estates, which suits crews fine, because the houses here are solid, easy to park outside and minutes from the jobs scattered across the region. KrewBase lets whole serviced houses and flats in and around Earlston with the bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before check-in and one monthly invoice to your company.
The housing around Earlston is classic Borders: stone-built terraces in the town itself, semi-detached houses from the post-war decades and steadings and farm cottages out towards Gordon, Greenlaw and Lauder. For crews, the semis usually win — a driveway, a back garden and a proper kitchen beat a cramped room above a pub. We filter every house for parking that actually fits the vehicles you run, a working broadband line and enough bathrooms, so a five-strong crew isn't queuing for the shower at half six.
The Borders run on steady, practical work rather than one big headline project. Housing development continues around the market towns, farm buildings and steadings get converted and repaired, and the road and grid networks across the region need constant maintenance. Crews working across the Borders — builders, joiners, groundworkers, linesmen, care and support staff — tend to rotate through a string of smaller sites rather than one camp job, which makes a settled house in a place like Earlston far better value than a week-by-week hotel.
The A68 runs straight out of Earlston, north to Edinburgh in around 45 minutes and south towards Jedburgh, while the A697 links Duns and Coldstream. Melrose and Galashiels are roughly ten miles west, Lauder a few miles north. There's no station in town — the nearest rail is at Tweedbank near Melrose on the Borders Railway. When you tell us where the site is, we shortlist houses by real drive time, not postcode guesswork, so the crew isn't crossing the county when a closer house was free.
You take the whole property — no shared corridors, no other tenants. Every bill goes in our name: council tax, gas, electric, water, broadband, TV licence where needed. Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, and parking is checked against the actual vehicles on the job. For crews of five or more we look for two bathrooms, and a weekly clean with linen change keeps the place straight while they work. Maintenance is ours. One monthly invoice goes to your company paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay — two people for a fortnight is as welcome as twenty for six months.
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.
Send us the site postcode and headcount and you'll normally have a shortlist within two working hours. We check each house against drive time, parking, broadband and bathroom count before it reaches you, so the list is short for a reason — every option is bookable.
Beyond the town itself we place crews in Gordon, Greenlaw, Lauder and the villages towards Melrose and Galashiels. If the site sits further out, tell us the postcode and we'll shortlist from whichever direction the crew will actually travel on the day.
Yes. We check parking against the vehicles you're bringing — vans, pickups or a trailer — before we offer a house. Rural Borders properties usually have driveways or generous on-street space, but we confirm it in writing rather than assume.
Yes. Council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband all stay in our name and sit behind one monthly invoice to your company. The Wi-Fi is speed-tested before the crew checks in, so nobody arrives to a dead router on a Sunday night.
That's exactly how we work. The contract is with your company, one invoice lands monthly paid by card, and the crew never handles money or paperwork. No booking fees, no deposits loaded onto a card, and no chasing receipts from site.
We do. If the boiler, a tap or the broadband plays up, the crew phones us and we send our contractor. It's our problem, not the site manager's, and it's never billed to your company beyond the agreed monthly rate.
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Earlston sits about 29 miles from Edinburgh. Plenty of crews working here base themselves in the city and drive out, especially on longer jobs or when the local supply is thin. Our contractor accommodation Edinburgh page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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Need beds in Earlston? 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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