You're hiring a stranger into your home. Here's who I am.

I'm Joe Brunner. I've been doing residential electrical work in New Jersey for 25 years. Burlington is home, and it's where the van gets parked at night.

I started in the trade the usual way — helper, apprentice, journeyman, license — and I've been running my own work for most of that time. What I do now is straightforward: residential electrical, from a single outlet to a full-house rewire, done properly and permitted where the town says it should be.

I don't send crews. When you hire Brunner Boys, the person who diagnosed your problem is the person doing the work. My license number is on the truck and on every quote. That's not marketing — it's how I've been able to stay a one-man shop for a long time.