Hey, who turned out the lights??

Apartments + halogen down lights + a dodgy builder and his dodgy electrician mates = Profit????

We bought this apartment brand new and these lights have been nothing but trouble since we moved in. Heaps of the transformers in the roof have blown and needed to be replaced because they were cheap and nasty and not made to last (but then again, is anything made to last these days??). Now we're starting to find some of these lights and their transformers don't seem to have enough space around them in the ceiling space. Fire hazard anyone? Two of the lights in our living room are out of commission because they just look too dangerous to keep running. One of them is burning a hole in the air conditioning tube-y thingo that's running above it. The other has burned a hole in it's transformer and so last night, our lights kept overloading and turning off.

Sigh. Bet there's a bunch of electricians out there that are just rubbing their hands in anticipation at the amount of work they'll have coming out of this place for the next few years. Meanwhile, we'll just have to live with a bunch of wires hanging out of our roof until we can get someone in to fix these lights and make them safe to use. Awesome.