How Wade’s Restoration of Atlanta Was Born in Atlanta
Wade Ferris started this branch of Wade’s Restoration in Atlanta after watching too many homeowners in this city get handed a clipboard and a script instead of a plan. The trade here had a reputation problem. A homeowner would call about a water heater that let go on a Friday night, and the first crew through the door spent more time photographing the baseboards for a sales pitch than actually stopping the water. One job in particular stuck with Wade: a family in Smyrna whose adjuster had already approved full flooring replacement when a moisture meter showed the subfloor was salvageable. The company on site tore it out anyway because the invoice was bigger that way. Wade had seen enough.
He brought the brand to Atlanta because this market needed a restoration company that would hand over the moisture log, talk to the adjuster directly, and tell a homeowner when something could be dried instead of demolished. That meant building a local team that answered the phone like neighbors, showed up when they said they would, and put the scope in writing before the first fan went in. That was the whole idea. Nothing complicated. Just work that a homeowner could check, with a name attached to it.
Wade Ferris’s Personal Connection to the Damage Restoration Trade
Wade got into this work the way most people in the trade do: he showed up somewhere after something had already gone wrong. Early in his career, he walked into a house in Mableton where a pipe had been leaking behind a wall for weeks. The homeowner had been told by two companies that the room needed full gutting. The drywall sagged, the baseboards swelled, and the smell was that particular mix of wet insulation and rot that stays in your clothes for a day. But when Wade cut a small inspection hole and put a meter to the framing, most of it read dry. He spent the rest of the afternoon explaining what could be saved, what had to go, and why the quote he wrote was a third of what the other crews had proposed.
That moment shaped everything. He found he liked the detective part of the work: finding where the water actually went, not where it looked like it went. He liked the smell of a structure drying properly, the way the numbers on the moisture log drop day over day when the equipment is placed right. And he liked the awkward honesty of telling someone their floor could stay, even though it made the job smaller.
He has been in the trade for over a decade now, and what gets him out of bed is still that first call after midnight. Not because emergency work is exciting, but because that is when a homeowner is at their most vulnerable and most lied to. If he were not doing this, he would probably be a firefighter or a county inspector, something with boots on the ground and a clear answer at the end of the day. But restoration suits him. It is part science, part salvage, and part showing up for someone who doesn’t know what to trust.
Meet Wade Ferris - The Person Behind Every Job
Wade Ferris is the Owner & Founder of Wade’s Restoration of Atlanta. He has spent his career in damage restoration, working through floods, fires, mold outbreaks and storm damage across metro Atlanta. His training covers structural drying, fire and smoke recovery, and mold remediation protocols, and he keeps current on equipment from brands like Dri-Eaz and Phoenix because the technology changes faster than most people assume. He is not a franchise technician working through a rotating roster. He lives in the Atlanta area, knows the soil and crawlspace conditions in neighborhoods from Vinings to Druid Hills, and puts his own name on the work.
Wade is particular about one thing above everything else: documentation. Every job gets photographed before anyone touches it, and every drying job gets a daily moisture log that the homeowner keeps. He is the kind of person who will call a homeowner back just to say the plan is still on schedule. If you hire Wade’s Restoration of Atlanta, you will deal with a person who treats your house like he will be seeing you at the grocery store later, because he probably will.
His commitment is simple: if something is wrong, he will come back. And he will not make you chase him to do it.
Our Promise to Atlanta Homeowners
Wade’s Restoration of Atlanta operates on a simple set of promises, grounded in how the company actually runs, not in a marketing deck.
Honest pricing. The estimate is written before the work starts, and the scope does not grow quietly while fans are running. If a floor can be dried instead of replaced, we will tell you and show you the readings that back it up. We would rather do the smaller job and earn your next call.
Quality equipment and parts. We run Dri-Eaz, Phoenix and XPOWER equipment because it holds up, dries evenly, and gives us numbers we are willing to put in writing.
Standing behind every job. Our work carries a ninety-day written guarantee on water, fire and mold restoration. If something is not right, one call brings us back. That is the standard the brand has carried since 2007, and it holds at this Atlanta branch.
Our Credentials
- State-licensed: every pro working under our name is required to hold the license their state requires for the work they perform.
- Insured & bonded: coverage is maintained so a homeowner is not the one holding the risk.
- Long local tenure: the brand has been at this since 2007, and the Atlanta team is built from people who have worked these neighborhoods for years.
- Strong local reputation: our name is on the truck, the invoice and the guarantee, because reputation here is earned one job at a time.
Why does any of this matter? Because when someone is standing in your living room at two in the morning with a moisture meter, you want the paperwork behind them to be real. Licensing means the state has a record. Insurance means you are not the one paying if something goes sideways. And a name on the truck means the person doing the work has a reason to do it right.
Rooted in Atlanta
Our team works across Atlanta, Vinings, Smyrna, Fair Oaks, Mableton, Brookhaven, Sandy Springs, North Atlanta, Marietta, Druid Hills, North Druid Hills and Austell. We know which older homes on the northeast side sit on crawlspaces that hold humidity hard in summer, and which basements near Smyrna see water after a heavy storm. This is home. Wade lives here, answers the phone here, and runs into his customers at the hardware store, which is the oldest accountability system there is.
Written by Wade Ferris, Owner & Founder at Wade’s Restoration of Atlanta, serving Atlanta and the surrounding communities since 2007.