Gairloch, Scotland • Scotland
Gairloch is a scattered coastal settlement on the west coast of Highland Scotland, postcode area IV, strung along the shores of Loch Gairloch and reached by the A832 from Inverness. It's remote — the nearest city, Inverness, is the best part of two hours away — which is exactly why crews working the west coast need proper housing arranged before they travel. KrewBase provides whole serviced houses with bills, Wi-Fi and parking in and one monthly invoice, shortlist built around your actual site, not the nearest town on a map.
Housing here is sparse and spread out: crofting townships with older stone houses, a scatter of modern bungalows, and very little in between. That scarcity is exactly why KrewBase exists for areas like this — the decent properties get snapped fast, and a crew arriving without accommodation sorted can end up an hour from site. We shortlist only houses that work for tradespeople: reliable heating, a drive or hardstanding for the van, a kitchen that can feed a crew, and mobile signal we honestly report. Anything that fails those checks doesn't make the list.
Work on this stretch of coast is practical and seasonal: utilities and grid maintenance, road and drainage upkeep on the single-carriageway routes, forestry, and the constant round of repairs on visitor infrastructure along the famous coastal route. NHS and care cover for the scattered communities brings in staff too. Crews are usually small — two to six people — and the pattern is a block of weeks or months rather than a commute. A solid house beats a long drive in every direction, which is the case we plan around.
Gairloch sits on the A832, the coast road that loops up from Inverness via Garve and carries on towards Ullapool. Inverness, the nearest city, is roughly 70 miles and around an hour and three-quarters by road. There's no railway anywhere near, so the van is the office. Sites here are often single pins on a long road rather than a town, so we shortlist by measured drive time from the site — ten minutes of map-checking at enquiry stage saves an hour each way, every day, for the whole job.
You take the whole property, and KrewBase holds every bill in its name — rent, council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before anyone arrives, and parking is verified against the vehicles actually turning up. Properties sleeping five or more have two bathrooms; everyone gets a weekly clean and fresh linen, and maintenance goes to us. The company receives one monthly invoice, paid by card. No booking fees, no minimum crew or stay, and when the job runs long, extending is a conversation, not a new let.
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.
We send a shortlist within two hours during working hours. Stock is thin on this coast, so we also check the townships along the A832 in both directions and tell you honestly what's realistically available for your dates. Booking early matters more here than in most places.
Then we widen by drive time, not by postcode. Houses along the A832 towards Poolewe or back towards Garve often serve the site better than forcing the issue in the village. You see real options with drive times, not apologies.
We speed-test broadband before check-in and report the number, and we flag properties where mobile signal is the backup. If your crew needs connectivity for job sheets or calls, tell us at enquiry and that filters the shortlist. If a property can't meet the requirement, it simply isn't shortlisted.
Yes — rent and every bill on one card payment invoice, with no booking fees. It's the same arrangement whether it's two of you for a month or a bigger squad for six, and it never changes mid-stay. Your accounts team deals with one document a month, nothing else.
Parking is checked against your actual vehicles before we shortlist. On a coast of crofting townships that check matters more than most places — we don't forward houses where the van ends up half a mile up the road. Hardstanding counts; a hopeful gap on a single-track road doesn't.
Tell us the shift pattern at booking and housekeeping is scheduled around the crew sleeping, not a fixed morning slot. Where night work is the norm we note blackout options on the shortlist so the house suits the job from day one.
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Gairloch sits about 57 miles from Inverness. 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 Inverness page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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Need beds in Gairloch? 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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