Caring for your accommodation
We would like to give you a few tips on how best to care for your accommodation.
Doors
A drop of lubricating or lock oil often helps if you’re having problems with a sticky or
squeaky lock or hinge.
Windows
Please contact your house caretaker if your windows need sealing.
Flooring
Avoid scratches and marks by keeping floors free of sand and dirt. You can protect your
floors by putting felt protection pads under the legs of tables, chairs and beds. Special
heavy-duty pads and castors can be fitted to the bottom of very heavy furniture. You can
also protect the floor when moving heavy furniture. If you have no-one to help you carry
the furniture, make sure that the floor is clean. Then put a blanket or rug under the furniture and push the furniture in front of you.
Kitchen tops
Kitchen tops are often made of laminated plastic or wood. Laminated plastic tops are
heat-resistant and can withstand a saucepan full of boiling water. They will not withstand
a hot frying-pan, casserole or oven-proof dish, however. Kitchen tops are easily scratched
and are not designed to be used as chopping boards. Wooden kitchen tops have either
been varnished or oiled. If they have been oiled, they need to be occasionally retreated
with paraffin oil. This prevents the wood from drying out and becoming stained.
Cupboards and wardrobes
Cupboards and wardrobes are made of different materials depending on the manufacturer
and their durability varies somewhat. Doors and fittings should not be overloaded.
Walls
Don’t put the bed right up against the wall. Grease from hair will stain the wallpaper
behind the bed. Use a headboard or leave a gap between the bed and the wall.
Mirrored panels require too many holes to be drilled into the wall. Mount the mirrors
on e.g. a fibre board and screw the board into the wall. Drill 8 holes rather than 88!
Seating furniture chafes against the wallpaper causing damage. Every time someone sits down in the sofa or an armchair, it slides backwards a few centimetres and
rubs against the wall. Put a few bits of wood on the floor behind armchairs and sofas
to prevent them reaching the wall.
Desks/computer tables also move backwards when you write or play a computer
game. Prevent damage to the wall by putting two or three felt pads on the back of
the desk/table top.
Stiftelsen Stockholms Studentbostäder
Box 19608, SE-104 32 Stockholm
Besöksadress: Körsbärsvägen 2
Tel 08-458 10 00 | Fax 08-458 10 99
Org.nr 802003-2887
Kundcenter
Tel 08-458 10 10 | Fax 08-458 10 15
[email protected]
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