Redruth, South West • England
Redruth is a working Cornish town on the A30 between Camborne and Truro, in the TR postcode area. Rows of granite terraces, post-war semis and newer estates fan out from the old mining high street, and the town has long been a practical base for crews heading anywhere in mid and west Cornwall. KrewBase supplies whole serviced houses and flats here — bills in, Wi-Fi tested, parking checked, and one monthly invoice to your company.
Redruth's stock is classic Cornish town housing: tight granite terraces near the centre, semis on the slopes, and more recent estates towards the edge of town with driveways and decent-sized kitchens. The estates suit crews of four to six well, with parking that actually takes vans. We also weigh up the street itself — lighting, turning space for a van, and how far the nearest shop is for an early breakfast.
We avoid the tightest terraced streets for vehicle-heavy crews and prioritise houses with two bathrooms for five or more people, space for kit, and proper heating for winter working. Every shortlist is checked against your headcount and vehicles, not a generic spec. Older properties can be lovely to look at and grim to live in, so we only put forward ones we'd put our own crews in.
Redruth sits in the middle of Cornwall's main working corridor. Crews here cover construction and housing development across the county, utilities and grid maintenance, manufacturing sites, and healthcare support around the Royal Cornwall Hospital area in Truro and community services locally. Whatever the sector, the pattern is the same: crews need a proper base near site, not a hotel an hour away.
It's also a sensible base for crews working anywhere along the A30 spine — Penzance to the west, Truro and beyond to the east — as well as the coastal towns either side. We shortlist by drive time to your specific site, whichever direction it's in. Work across the South West moves from site to site, so we keep our lets flexible rather than tying you to one address.
The A30 runs straight past Redruth, giving crews a fast run west towards Penzance and Hayle or east towards Truro and the rest of Cornwall. Camborne is two miles away and Truro about nine, so most mid-Cornwall sites are within half an hour. When we're not certain of a route, we say so and shortlist on tested drive time rather than promising numbers we can't stand behind.
Redruth has its own station on the main Cornwall rail line between Plymouth and Penzance, useful for crew changes without a car. For anything off the main routes, we plan around real drive times, not map distance. If several sites are on the go at once, we'll aim for a house that sits sensibly between them rather than beside one.
The whole property is yours — no hotel per-head pricing and no sharing with strangers. Bills stay in our name: council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband, with Wi-Fi speed-tested before check-in and parking confirmed against your vehicles. The paperwork is straightforward: one agreement, one monthly invoice, no hidden extras hiding in the small print. You get one point of contact at KrewBase from first call to final checkout.
A weekly clean and fresh linen are included, maintenance is our job, and your office gets one monthly invoice, paid by card. There are no booking fees and no minimum crew size or stay. If something's not right in the first week, we move fast to fix it or move the crew. Comfort isn't a luxury on a long job.
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.
In most cases we send a shortlist within two hours of your call — houses that fit your crew size, with parking and honest drive times to site. Check-in is usually within a few working days of you picking one.
Generally the newer estates on the edge of town: driveways, bigger kitchens and easier van parking than the older terraced centre. We check each property against your actual vehicles and headcount before offering it, so there are no surprises at check-in.
Yes — council tax, gas, electric, water and broadband are all in our name and speed-tested before your crew arrives. Everything lands on one monthly invoice to your company, so nobody's chasing utility accounts. Set-up is handled before check-in, so the first night in the house feels like the fiftieth.
That's the standard arrangement. One monthly invoice per property paid by card, no booking fees. Your accounts team deals with KrewBase as a single supplier and your crew never handles money. You get one point of contact at KrewBase from first call to final checkout.
Yes — Camborne, Truro, Hayle, Portreath and the A30 corridor in either direction. If a better-fitting house sits in the next town along, we'll show it on the shortlist with the drive time, and let you decide. Your office deals with one supplier and one invoice; your crew just gets on with the job.
We do. Boiler, lock, leak or appliance — your crew calls us, we send the tradesperson, and it's covered under the booking. It never becomes a job for your site manager. Rates are agreed upfront and stay fixed for the booking, so there are no surprises on the invoice.
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Need beds in Redruth? 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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