Kentisbeare, South West • England
Kentisbeare is a small east Devon village between Cullompton and the Blackdown Hills, in the South West of England and the EX postcode area, with the M5 a short hop west and Exeter within easy reach. It's the kind of place crews pass through on the way to a site rather than somewhere with a hotel on every corner. KrewBase houses working crews in whole serviced properties around Kentisbeare — bills in our name, Wi-Fi tested before arrival and one tidy monthly invoice landing with your office.
Villages like this run on stone-built farmhouses, council-era semis and a scatter of newer detached houses on the lanes towards Cullompton and the motorway. What works for crews is the off-street parking and the quiet — nobody's fighting for a bay at six in the morning. Because the stock is thin and spread out, we widen the net to the surrounding villages and shortlist by drive time rather than insisting on a Kentisbeare postcode. Every property still gets the same filter: parking for real vehicles, a proper kitchen, and no landlord who's precious about boots.
East Devon keeps a steady flow of tradespeople busy: housing growth around the M5 corridor towns, farm and food-sector maintenance across the Culm valley, utility and grid work in the Blackdowns, and the hospitals and services of Exeter pulling in healthcare staff from the villages around it. Crews working across the wider region often base in a village like this precisely because it's quiet and cheap to park — which suits us, because that's where the right houses tend to be. Tell us where the site gate is and we'll place the crew sensibly: Kentisbeare, Cullompton, Tiverton or a village in between.
The M5's junction 28 at Cullompton is a few minutes west, putting Exeter around 20 minutes away and the wider motorway network within easy reach. The A373 runs down towards Tiverton and the Culm valley, and Honiton and the A30 corridor lie to the east. Rural lanes around the Blackdowns are pretty but slow, so we never trust map distance — we shortlist by measured drive time to the site gate at shift start, and we say plainly if a base in Cullompton or Tiverton would cut the crew's daily miles.
Your crew gets the whole property, with gas, electricity, water, council tax and broadband all in KrewBase's name and inside one monthly rate. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, parking is checked against the vehicles that actually arrive, and any house sleeping five or more carries two bathrooms. A weekly clean and fresh linen keep the place decent, maintenance calls come to us rather than your ganger, and your company receives one monthly invoice, paid by card — no booking fees, no minimum crew size, no minimum 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.
Send the site postcode, headcount and dates and we'll return a shortlist of whole properties within two working hours. Most crews are checked in within a day or two of choosing — faster where a property is already serviced, furnished and ready, which most of ours are kept.
By drive time to the site gate, not by village name. That might mean Cullompton a few miles west, Tiverton up the valley, or a village house between them. You'll see the reasoning next to each property on the shortlist, so your office can see exactly why each house was picked.
Rural east Devon houses usually do, and we verify it rather than assume it — driveways and yards measured against your actual vehicles before we offer anything. If parking won't work for the vans you've got, the property doesn't make the list, however nice the kitchen is.
The whole property, all utility bills, council tax, broadband, the weekly clean and a linen change, plus maintenance handled by us at our cost. Your company gets one invoice a month paid by card — no booking fees, and nothing at all for crew members to pay or claim back.
Yes. Extensions are routine — just tell us the new end date and we roll the booking on at the same rate. The weekly clean and maintenance cover continue throughout, so a house that's been lived in for six months still feels decent when the job finally wraps up.
We do. The crew reports a problem, we dispatch our maintenance contact, and it's fixed at our cost and our speed. Your ganger should never be phoning a landlord about a boiler — that phone call is exactly what you're paying us to take instead.
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