Insch, Scotland • Scotland
Insch is a small town on the A96 in rural Aberdeenshire, in the AB postcode area, sitting between Huntly and Inverurie with the hill of the Bass rising behind it. Crews working anywhere along the Aberdeen to Inverness corridor base up here when they want a quiet, well-connected home between the two cities. KrewBase provides whole serviced houses with the bills in our name, Wi-Fi that passes a speed test, parking for the vans and one monthly invoice.
Insch is granite country: cottages and terraces along the main street, bungalows and semis on the newer plots, and farm cottages scattered through the surrounding countryside. It is a small place, so the right digs are sometimes a mile or two outside the town, and that usually suits crews better anyway. What we filter for does not change with the postcode. Parking that takes your vans, a kitchen that feeds the whole crew, heating that holds a Scottish winter, and broadband with genuine speed. Every property we shortlist is walked through and checked before it reaches you, so the list is short but every option works.
This is farming and food country, and the processing and supply-chain work around it keeps engineers and trades moving. Add housing development and refurbishment across Aberdeenshire, road and infrastructure contracts along the A96, and energy and grid work in the wider region, and the corridor runs a steady pipeline of crews. Insch's position is the point: roughly midway between Aberdeen and Inverness, close to Huntly, Inverurie and the smaller towns either side. Crews on rolling contracts along the corridor can keep one set of digs here instead of repacking every few weeks.
The A96 covers everything locally: Huntly is about fifteen minutes west, Inverurie twenty east, and Aberdeen around fifty minutes. Inverness is a longer haul, but for crews whose sites split between the two cities, Insch keeps both ends honest. Insch station sits on the Aberdeen to Inverness railway with regular trains in both directions, which helps crew members rotating in and out. For daily site runs we rank shortlisted houses by drive time from the gate, because a ten-mile site can beat a four-mile one once the roads are counted properly.
You take the whole house, not rooms. We hold council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband in our name and include them all in the rate, with Wi-Fi speed-tested before check-in. Parking is verified against your vehicles, and houses sleeping five or more have at least two bathrooms. The weekly clean and fresh linen are part of the arrangement, and maintenance is ours to deal with, however awkward the hour. Your office gets one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay length. Enquiries with headcount and dates get a shortlist back within two hours.
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.
Inside two working hours in most cases. Send the headcount, dates and site location and we reply with available whole houses, each with honest drive times. When Insch itself is tight on stock we extend the same search to Huntly, Inverurie, Rothienorman and the surrounding villages.
Yes. Town houses here usually have driveways or easy off-street space, and country properties typically have room to spare. We confirm the fit against your vehicle list before check-in either way. Parking is included in the rate and never an extra line on the invoice.
All of them. Council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband sit in our name and are bundled into the one monthly invoice. Broadband is speed-tested before check-in, so it copes with rotas, calls and streaming. Nobody on the crew deals with a supplier.
The middle A96 corridor: Huntly and Keith to the west, Inverurie, Kintore and Oldmeldrum to the east, with Aberdeen and the airport within range for longer stays. Sites across rural Aberdeenshire are covered too, with every option ranked by actual drive time from the site gate.
For stays beyond a week or two, yes. A hotel splits the crew across rooms, parking becomes a daily negotiation, and night shifts wake the whole floor. A whole house keeps everyone together with a kitchen, sitting room, laundry and driveway, and the monthly invoice usually beats the hotel bill once meals and parking are counted.
We do. The crew reports a fault, we arrange the fix, and it lands on our invoice line, not on the trades on site. Heating, plumbing, electrics, appliances and locks are all covered, with urgent problems prioritised so the crew is never left cold.
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If Insch is short on the right house for your crew, Aberdeen is the obvious back-up, roughly 24 miles away. See our contractor accommodation Aberdeen page for what we hold there. Small crews are as welcome as big ones.
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Need beds in Insch? 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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