Hi good folk of Finland,
I’ve been paying for this private parking place for over a year at my neighborhood (via the housing company) but have never thought of using the block heater plug, until this week’s cold wave came. I bought an electricity cable and decided tonight to try it out. To my surprise, I found that my neighbor plugged their cable into my parking socket (my side is the left). It could be a one time mistake, of course. But my question is, how is this electricity metered? Do I pay for it from my own flat electricity bill? Or is it part of the fixed price of the parking spot and it matters not (cost-wise) how much one uses it?
If it turns out to be metered through my flat electric bill, I’d be concerned how many times the neighbor had “mistakenly” plugged their cable into the wrong power socket.
Thank you in advance

by Natur57

6 comments

  1. What you see there is timer, not kWh meter. I would say that heating electricity is not paid by consumption (almost) ever, you just pay monthly fee and can use it. So this does not matter. There also might be something wrong with other socket

  2. All parking electricity systems (not too many) have electricity included in the monthly fixed bill.

  3. It doesnt matter.
    The electricity coming to the outside plugs are paid by the housing company. I have never heard of someone having a system where they could reroute specific plugs to specific apartments so the electricity would go through that apartments meter.
    Neighbour might have noticed you dont use your plug and decided to employ them both to basically have two different settings on the timers.

  5. I can turn off that thing from my apartment. So if you can do that just do to make sure your neighbor cant use it.

  6. Just take it off and put your own in it, it doesnt matter do you have a car, why not plug a toaster to it(joking, it would be dangerous)

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