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must be returned as soon as possible. If you
lock yourself out after office hours or during the
weekend and you cannot wait until the morning
of the next weekday, you can call the following
number: +358 (0)10 620 2016 (door opening is
chargeable).
The caretaker will charge you to open your
door. This fee can be paid to the service man
immediately or it can be charged later. The
caretaker on duty will immediately require
seeing some proof of identity and will only open
the door to the apartment’s official tenant(s).
Please check with your landlord how you can get
a spare key (Lärkan, VOAS, Retrodorm etc.).
Lost Keys – Living in a Privately Rented Flat
Always call the caretaker or the caretaker
company. You can find the address and telephone
number of the caretaker (or company) on a
notice board by the entrance of the building.
You have to prove your identity. Charges for
opening the door vary between companies and
depending on the time of the day or night that
you are in need of the spare key.
Laundry – Living in a Student Village Founda-
tion Accommodation in Åbo
There are washing machines in the Student
Village and in other student accommodations.
Please check the different terms of usage and
instructions for the laundry room that you are
entitled to use.
The usage of the machines in the Student
Village Foundation accommodations is paid by
mobile phone. The price is around 2€/per use.
Please note that prepaid accounts need to have
a certain amount of money stored in order to
pay the laundry service. If the reservation hasn’t
been taken to use in 15 minutes after its start,
the machine becomes available for others to use.
All laundry reservations are made online. You
can access the online reservation from TYS’s
webpage: . If
you are unable to use your reserved slot, please
cancel it from the same webpage.
Laundry - Living in a Privately Rented Flat
Finland does not have the usual laundry/
laundromat service that exists in many countries.
Usually apartment buildings have a laundry
room where tenants can do their laundry. These
are reserved only for the use of tenants of the
building or group of buildings. Pretty much all
other laundry services are dry cleaners.
Example of a dry cleaner service:
Sol Pesupalvelu
Åbo:
Köpmansgatan 11, phone +358 (0)40 779 7243
Gertrudsgatan 3, phone +358 (0)40 779 7242
Kristinegatan 6, phone +358 (0)40 779 7241
Skansgatan 10 (Shopping Centre Skanssi), phone
+358 (0)40 779 7276
Vasa:
Storalånggatan 40, phone +358 (0)40 779 7232
Repairs – Living in a Student Village
Foundation Accommodation in Åbo
If you live in a Student Village Foundation flat
and your residence is in need of repair (for
example if the faucets leak or the door locks are
broken), you should fill in a request for repair
form, which is available online: Try
to be as precise as possible when identifying the
defect. Please note that replacing light bulbs is
the responsibility of the resident. Special light
bulbs are sold, for example, at the housing office.
In case of emergency repair in the Student
Village Foundation flats in Åbo, contact the
caretaker company G4S Oy, phone +358 (0)204
28 2000.
Repairs – Living in a Privately Rented Flat
You can call the caretaker or the caretaker
company of your building. The contact
information is available on the noticeboard of
your building, usually placed by the building’s
main entrance.