M W Burns Electrical Contractors

M W Burns Electrical Contractors has run out of the same address on Canal Street in Medford for decades — the company's own site and Alignable put its start at 1968, and the Better Business Bureau's file agrees, listing 58 years in business. It describes itself as a commercial and residential electrical outfit, with Alignable naming Boston and Cambridge as territory alongside its Medford home base. The reputation across public listings is consistent but shallow: Google shows a 5.0 average from 3 ratings, Birdeye shows 5.0 from 5 reviews, and a separate emergency-electrician directory shows 5 out of 5 from 3 votes. No public complaint surfaces anywhere in these listings, but every one of those ratings rests on a small handful of votes rather than years of accumulated written reviews. Two things worth asking about directly: the company is not BBB accredited and has no BBB rating on file, and its founding date isn't even consistent across the web — one older directory lists 1978 as the start year against the 1968 the company and BBB both cite. Neither is disqualifying, but it's worth a quick confirmation. For general commercial or residential electrical work around Medford, Cambridge, and Boston, the long tenure and consistently positive (if thin) rating record are reasonable enough to justify getting a bid — just don't expect a deep trail of customer write-ups to vet them against beforehand.