Sauna, laundry room and parking spaces
Sauna
There is a free sauna period every week, 1.5 hours for men and 1.5 hours for women. The time can be found on the sauna door in your building.
You can also rent your own sauna turn (1 hour per week, same time every week) by sending email to customerservice@kuopas.fi. Sauna turn costs 20 € in a month.
The minimum time for booking a sauna turn is one full calendar month. Individual sauna turns cannot be booked. The reservation can be started in the middle of the month, but it can then be canceled until the end of the next month at the earliest.
If you want to cancel your sauna turn, please send an email to our customer service. Sauna turn can be canceled at the end of the current month.
Locations of saunas in Kuopas’ buildings
Laundry Room, washing machines and Drying Room
All residential locations have their own laundry room, an area for drying laundry, and modern washers and dryers. The use of laundry rooms is free of charge. The laundry room is open every day from 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM.
You can book the washing turn from the electronic reservation system. Washing machines must not be used without a reservation! To book laundry turns, you must register in the system. To new international students we will send the link to the washing machine reservation system with the Rent invoice.
In the new system, the resident can have 5 active reservations. You can always book 7 days forward from the time of the reservation.
Remember to allocate enough time for doing laundry. The washing machine estimates the duration of the program based on the weight of the laundry, so the program duration may be longer for heavier loads.
You can reserve your wash time beforehand at any time when the laundry room is open. If you do not need the time you have reserved, please cancel it. The front door of the laundry room must be kept locked to keep out outsiders. The housing association does not reimburse for clothes that go missing from the laundry room. Use all machines according to instructions and make a fault report of any possible defects as soon as you notice that a machine does not work, or it malfunctions.
Locations of Laundry rooms in Kuopas’ buildings
Washing Machine connections
Most of our properties have connections for dishwashers and washing machines. Below is a list of locations that do not have a connection:
- Samoilijantie 6
- Taivaanpankontie 15
- Ahkiotie 8
- Hallikatu 13
- Satamakatu 24 F-building & Satamakatu 26 (except building A)
- Särkiniementie 30 studios with shared kitchen
In all other locations, there is a washing machine connection.
Parking Spaces and Spaces with Car Heaters
There are car heating posts in the parking areas of residential locations. Parking spaces in Kuntokuja 2 and Katiskaniementie 6 are 10€/month. Other locations’ parking spaces are 10–15€/month.
Parking spaces can be rented by sending an email to customerservice@kuopas.fi. Heating post key can be collected from Kuopas’ office.
The minimum time for parking space reservation is one full calendar month. The reservation can be started in the middle of the month, but it can then be canceled by the end of the next month at the earliest.
The heating posts work with a timed clock or with so-called termotakt system. They turn on when the temperature is below zero and supply power current periodically depending on the air temperature. Because of this, power may not come from the post exactly when you connect the plug to your car. The use of interior space heaters in cars is prohibited.
The heating posts can only be used for the car engine heaters. Unfortunately you can’t charge electric vehicles from the heating posts.
Do not park in reserved spaces. Parking is monitored by the City of Kuopio. Please don’t leave your car in any other places in the yard than a parking slot. You may get ticketed if the car is in a wrong place. If you do not use your car, please find a place for it where it is not in the way of snow-clearing in winter, our maintenance service can help you with this. If you do not want to move your car, take care of the snow-free surroundings of your parking space. This allows everyone to park their car in their own parking space.
When you do not need the parking space anymore, return the heating box key to Kuopas’ office in a plastic bag or envelope with your name and address. Parking space will then be canceled at the end of that month in which the key is returned.
You can find a car slot map in the building guide.
Electric car charging
Unfortunately, standard heating poles cannot be used to charge electric cars, as they are not designed for this purpose. Some of our sites have separate charging stations for electric cars, which charge an additional 20 € per month on top of the normal parking fee. Note! The charging limit for electric car charging stations is 8A.
The electric car charging stations also function as a normal electric heating point. Permission to change electric charging and pole settings must be settled separately with customer service.
Owning an electric car does not entitle you to skip the queue. If someone has an electric car the parking space for the charging station is reserved for a car that does not charge from it, parking spaces can be exchanged with a regular parking space (if available).