Typically we don't supply(buy) lighting. We may have a part in finding what's submitted though.
My question . Does they buyer ,supplier of the fixtures need to buy things like the legs that don't always come with cans, or the ceiling wires to hang them,or the dimmers etc?
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The only lighting normally supplied by me would be, in residential, cans and their respective trims and lamps. Lighting fixtures beyond that were typically supplied by the HO or GC. My responsibility ended at the box. I would supply the appropriate circuitry and box with the only responsibility with the fixture being to assemble and hang it. Commercial jobs pretty much anything above "base building" (2x2, 2x4 and regular switches) was supplied by the GC or designer/architect. Like Infinity said, it's their baby when things go wrong.
Had a job a few years ago where the designer and the building owner had colluded, to save money, and purchased the light fixtures. When we showed up, they were on the front walkway of the building with one of the fixtures
out of the box by one of the columns admiring how wonderful they looked. We asked if they had the bases and bulbs for the fixtures, they did. How did they want the fixtures oriented, etc. We were good to go. Designer hops in her little coupe races off, owner heads into the building.
We commence to removing and installing a couple dozen fixtures. Completed the job and had everything cleaned up and (all the trash and debris) boxed and set back on the pallet, neat as a pin. Right when we were putting our tools away, the designer zips back up to the site, hops out of the car, takes on look at the fixtures and says, "those are the wrong size." My response, "that's what you bought..."
We wound up removing and re-boxing them all. Go to the owner, give her the bill, "Why am I paying for this? They're the wrong fixtures!" "Because, ma'am, we did the work. It's not my fault that the fixtures you and your designer gave us were wrong." I did get paid and I did get called back to install the correct ones.