Port Riddell, Scotland • Scotland
Port Riddell is a small coastal settlement in Argyll and Bute, on Scotland's west coast, in the PA postcode area — the kind of place where a job arrives and the nearest hotel is a serious drive away. KrewBase houses contractor crews in whole serviced properties within sensible reach of site, with bills, Wi-Fi and parking in, and one monthly invoice to your company.
Housing on this stretch of the west coast is a scatter of stone cottages, post-war bungalows and newer houses on former croft ground, often with a garden and space beside the house for a van. Whole properties are what we let — one crew, one key, no shared stairwells — because contractors need to come and go on job time, not house time.
Supply is thin in a settlement this size, so we vet hard rather than widely. Every shortlist property gets walked in person: heating and hot water for the whole crew, Wi-Fi that can carry a video call, drying space for wet gear and parking measured against the vehicles you actually run. If a pretty cottage fails the shower test or the parking test, it does not make the list, whatever the photos suggest.
Crews come to this part of Argyll for building and housing work, road and harbour repairs, energy and grid jobs, aquaculture support and the usual run of public-sector contracts — council, healthcare and infrastructure maintenance. Much of it is subcontracted, short-notice and seasonal, which is precisely when decent accommodation is hardest to find locally and when a proper crew house earns its keep against a string of B&Bs.
The pattern is familiar to us: a firm wins a contract along the coast, phones round the local beds and finds them booked solid by tourists, full of wedding guests or simply absent. Our answer is to shortlist real whole houses within honest drive time of the site, put a hold on the best one, and keep it there while your paperwork and ferry bookings catch up with the job.
We will not pretend to know every lane on this coastline — and we do not need to. Send us a map pin or a site address and we shortlist by real drive time, checked against the actual roads and any ferry legs. Oban is the main service town for this part of Argyll, and we factor in realistic runs to it for supplies and crew changes.
If the job involves island work, say so early — vehicle ferries book out and Friday sailings fill fast, and we would rather plan around it than have your crew sleeping in a van queue. Tell us the shift pattern too: a house that saves twenty minutes each way buys the crew nearly an extra half day a week, which adds up over a long contract.
The KrewBase arrangement does not change with the postcode: the whole property for your crew alone, all bills in our name — gas, electricity, water, council tax, Wi-Fi, TV licence — and one monthly invoice to your company paid by card. Wi-Fi is speed-tested before anyone moves in, parking is measured against your actual vehicles, and a house sleeping five or more gets two bathrooms so the morning queue stays short.
A weekly clean with fresh linen is included as standard, and maintenance during the stay is ours to sort — one phone number covers a blown light bulb or a dead boiler, with no landlord chasing and no receipts to file. There are no booking fees, no minimum crew size and no minimum stay, and a two-person crew on a short job gets exactly the same service as twenty people on a six-month contract.
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 headcount, dates and a site location — even a map pin — and we aim to reply with a shortlist within two working hours. Stock is thin on this coast, so more notice means better options, but we have handled jobs confirmed only days out.
In whole houses and flats within honest drive time of your site. We would rather book a good house twenty minutes away than a poor one five minutes from the gate — and we will show you the real drive times so you can judge for yourself.
Parking is verified, not assumed. You send the vehicle list — vans, pickups, trailers, the lot — and we only shortlist properties where everything fits off the road without blocking a neighbour or a passing place. That check is done before you sign anything, with photos if you want them.
One monthly invoice covers rent and every bill — gas, electricity, water, council tax, Wi-Fi, TV licence — plus weekly cleaning and linen. Payment is by card, no booking fees, no deposit surprises at any point. Your accounts team deals with one line item, not ten.
Yes. Plenty of jobs on this coast run two or three strong, and a whole cottage is often cheaper than separate rooms once meals and laundry are in the maths. Crew size never changes the service — small jobs get the same tested Wi-Fi and weekly clean as the big ones.
Headcount, start and end dates, the site location or a map pin, the vehicle list and any shift pattern. With that we shortlist real properties, confirm drive times on the actual roads, and come back with one all-in quote — usually within two working hours.
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Working in Port Riddell? You are about 27 miles from Glasgow, so we often shortlist from both. Have a look at our contractor accommodation Glasgow page too — whole houses, bills in, one invoice, whatever the size of the crew.
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Need beds in Port Riddell? 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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