Kirkliston, Scotland • Scotland
Ten minutes from Edinburgh Airport and a short hop from the Queensferry Crossing, Kirkliston is a West Lothian village in the EH postcode area that has grown well beyond its old stone core. Crews working across Edinburgh, Fife and the central belt use it as a quiet base with fast roads in every direction. KrewBase supplies whole serviced houses here — bills, Wi-Fi and parking arranged upfront, one monthly invoice to the company.
Kirkliston splits in two. The historic village has stone cottages and old farmhouses along the main street, while the big new-build estates spreading around it offer a different proposition: driveways sized for vans, garages, four-bedroom semis and detached houses with proper living space, and streets where parking is never an argument. For working crews, the newer estates are usually the answer, and the village proper suits smaller teams fine. The village sits close to well-served local amenities, which matters when a contract keeps people here longer than anyone planned.
We filter hard on the details: parking measured against the actual vehicles, Wi-Fi speed-tested before check-in, two bathrooms for crews of five or more, and a house that will stay comfortable through a long contract rather than just photograph well on day one. Anything that fails the checks doesn't reach your shortlist. A house that photographs well but parks badly is a false economy, and we don't deal in those.
Between the airport, the Forth crossings and Edinburgh's western edge, this area sees steady construction and infrastructure work. Logistics tied to the airport and the M9 and M90 corridors, housing development across West Lothian, and contracts reaching into Edinburgh and Fife all put crews here. Healthcare and energy work add shorter rotations, and the pattern through it all is a spread of sites rather than one big address. Some crews arrive for a single job and end up staying for the follow-on work, because this corner of West Lothian rarely runs short of it.
That's exactly why a base with options matters. A crew housed in Kirkliston can cover a site near the airport one month and a job over the crossing into Fife the next without moving house, which keeps the accommodation cost stable even when the work isn't. That continuity is worth real money when the alternative is two weeks of hotels at airport prices while everything gets rearranged.
The M9 runs past the village toward Edinburgh and Stirling, and the M90 crosses the Queensferry Crossing straight into Fife. The airport is minutes away, and Edinburgh city centre is roughly a 25-minute drive in normal traffic. For crews split between sites on both sides of the Forth, few bases beat it — one house can serve contracts in three council areas without anyone living out of a suitcase. Stirling and the rest of the central belt sit the other way on the M9, so a crew with rotating sites isn't pinned to one city's traffic.
As always, we shortlist by measured drive time from your site postcode. Tell us where the gate is and we work back from there, checking the route at the hours your crew will actually drive it rather than trusting a quiet-hour estimate from a map. If a route only works outside rush hour, we'll say so and shortlist accordingly, rather than letting the crew find out the expensive way.
You book the whole property — house or flat, just your crew inside it, no shared corridors and no strangers on the landing. Bills for gas, electricity, council tax, water, Wi-Fi and TV licence sit in our name and inside one monthly figure. Wi-Fi is tested before check-in, parking checked against real vehicles, and five or more in the house means two bathrooms. Weekly cleaning and fresh linen are included.
Maintenance is our job — the crew reports, we fix. The company gets one monthly invoice, paid by card, with no booking fees and no minimum crew or stay, and the arrangement stays identical whether the contract runs two weeks or the best part of a year. If the crew's vehicles change mid-contract — a bigger van, an extra trailer — we re-check the parking and move them if the property can't take it.
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.
Two hours is the standard. Tell us the site postcode, headcount and start date, and we'll return a shortlist of whole houses in Kirkliston and the surrounding villages, checked for parking, Wi-Fi and real drive time. It's free to request and there's no obligation to book, so you can see your options before you commit to anything.
Yes — South Queensferry, Broxburn, Uphall, Dalmeny and the western edge of Livingston, plus Edinburgh itself when the job demands it. The position between the M9 and the Queensferry Crossing means a Kirkliston base serves sites on both sides of the Forth without doubling up on accommodation, which keeps the cost of scattered contracts sensible.
We check parking against the actual vehicles before booking, which matters around Kirkliston where the newer estates have proper driveways but older village streets can be narrow. Tell us the van sizes and any trailer, and we'll only shortlist properties where everything fits off the road — no relying on a neighbour's good mood or a permit that doesn't exist.
Yes — gas, electricity, council tax, water, Wi-Fi and TV licence are all in our name and inside one monthly figure. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before check-in, so the crew gets real numbers rather than an estimate, and nothing is metered back to you at the end of the stay. The price agreed is the price invoiced.
That's how every booking works. One monthly invoice covers rent and all bills paid by card, with no booking fees and no surprise extras. Your accounts team deals with a single bill, and the crew never touches a meter, a utility account or a receipt — the paperwork is exactly one invoice a month.
Usually, yes. Give us as much notice as you can and we'll roll the booking on at the same terms. If the property is already committed elsewhere, we'll move the crew to another suitable house nearby and handle the transfer, so the job doesn't stop for an admin problem and the invoicing doesn't change.
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