Ivybridge, South West • England
Ivybridge sits on the A38 between Plymouth and Exeter, in Devon in the South West of England and the PL postcode area, with Dartmoor rising just to the north. When crews land here for weeks at a time, a hotel stop-gap gets old fast. KrewBase takes whole houses and flats in and around town, puts the bills in our name, tests the Wi-Fi before check-in and sends your company one monthly invoice — so your crew gets a proper base, not a corridor of rented rooms.
Ivybridge is mostly post-war and newer: tidy estates north and east of the town centre, rows of terraces along the older streets, and plenty of semi-detached family houses with gardens and driveways. For a crew, that stock is exactly right — real kitchens, a proper washing machine, room to park two or three vans off the road. We shortlist in the newer estates first, where parking is easier and neighbours are used to early starts, and we walk away from anything with permit-only bays or a shared drive that won't fit an actual crew's vehicles.
Ivybridge sits on the main Plymouth–Exeter corridor, so crews based here are usually working somewhere along the A38 — housing development on the town's own edges, construction and maintenance jobs across the South Hams, and rail or highways work on the network running west towards Plymouth. Healthcare and support staff bound for Plymouth's hospitals often prefer a quieter base out of the city. Whatever the trade, we don't ask for a project name — we ask where the site gate is.
The A38 Devon Expressway runs right past town, so Plymouth is roughly 20 minutes west and Exeter under 40 minutes east. Ivybridge station gives crews on rail jobs a direct line into both cities without needing a lift. For sites up on the moor or out in the South Hams villages, everything still routes back through the A38 or the A379, which keeps commutes honest. When we shortlist, we check drive time from the site at shift start — not just distance on a map — and we flag any property that looks close but queues badly.
You book the whole property — not rooms in someone else's house. All bills go in KrewBase's name, so there's nothing for your crew to set up or split. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is checked against the actual vehicles turning up, and any house sleeping five or more has two bathrooms. A weekly clean and fresh linen are part of the deal, and maintenance calls come to us, not your ganger. Your company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay.
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.
Tell us the site location, headcount and start and end dates, and we'll come back with a shortlist of whole properties within two working hours. Once you've picked, we can usually have keys ready the same or next working day, subject to the property being free, which most of ours are.
All of it, plus the surrounding South Hams and the villages towards Modbury and Bittaford. We shortlist by drive time to your site rather than by postcode, so if the best house sits just outside the town boundary, that's the one we'll propose, with the reasoning set out next to it.
Yes — parking is one of our hard filter criteria, not a nice-to-have. Before offering any property we check the drive and kerb space against the real vehicles in your crew, not the estate-agent photos. If a house only has on-street space for one car, it doesn't go on the shortlist for a multi-van crew.
Gas, electricity, water, council tax, broadband and the weekly clean are all in KrewBase's name and included in your one monthly rate. The Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, so your crew isn't hotspotting off a phone on their first night, and nobody has to set anything up or split anything.
That's exactly how it works. One itemised monthly invoice goes to your accounts team paid by card, with no booking fees and no deposit juggling for individuals. Crew members never pay anything out of pocket or file expense claims — the arrangement sits entirely between KrewBase and your company.
No minimum at all — a couple of fitters for two weeks get the same service as a twenty-strong gang for six months. Rates are priced per property rather than per person, and for smaller crews we can sometimes save money by pairing you with another small crew in a bigger house.
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Ivybridge sits about 10 miles from Plymouth. 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 Plymouth page covers houses across the wider area — two people or twenty, same service.
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Need beds in Ivybridge? 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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