How to find a power outlet for my engine block heater?

[elinerrc]

Hi everyone,

So we are looking to buy a property in Finland and we found a place that we really liked, but there is no power outlet available at the car park in front of our house. This house also does not have a garage. The estate agent was not very helpful in answering our questions on this matter, so we are completely at a loss.

Can we just connect it privately from our own house with a huge extension cord or something? Is that a thing? We have no idea. It will be our first property here in Finland and also it will be the first year that we will have a car in winter (we just brought ours from abroad and had the engine block heater installed)
This particular house is not part of a housing association, but it is part of a rivitalo. None of the houses have a garage, only a communal car park without any dedicated car spots.

Anyone here that could provide more info? Or know who I could ask about this? Much appreciated!

[riku2]

not all places have the power sockets, the car will survive without but with worse fuel consumption and icy windows in the morning. You can always add a fuel powered heater to the car. Many cars in Germany have this fuel powered system (standheizung) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standheizung

[vla]

not all places have the power sockets, the car will survive without but with worse fuel consumption and icy windows in the morning. You can always add a fuel powered heater to the car. Many cars in Germany have this fuel powered system (standheizung) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standheizung

In my building all the car spots have the power outlet but only few people use them. I myself don't use it, my car has an electronic/diesel heater (sorry about this, but I actually don't know how this works), I just program the car to turn the engine heater and that's all, I don't need to plug it. I guess most of the modern car has this feature.

[betelgeuse]

This particular house is not part of a housing association, but it is part of a rivitalo. None of the houses have a garage, only a communal car park without any dedicated car spots.

Rivitalo implies that it is part of a housing company. You would have the petition the housing company to electrify the car park. You can get support from the government when adding support for charging electric cars.