Fast, Reliable Storm & Disaster Restoration Across Atlanta
Storm damage in Atlanta is rarely just one problem. A tree falls through the roof, rain pours into the attic, water pools in the crawl space, and within 48 hours mold is already colonizing the floor joists. That’s the reality of living in the “City in a Forest,” where the tree canopy is the highest of any major U.S. city and mature water oaks, loblolly pines, and sweet gums crash through rooftops during every serious thunderstorm. Wade’s Restoration of Atlanta responds to storm calls across the metro with crews who know intown bungalows, tight alley-loaded garages, and crawl-space homes inside out. If you’re dealing with storm or flood damage right now, call (888) 690-3757 and Wade Ferris will answer his own phone.
Why Wade’s Restoration of Atlanta Is Atlanta’s Preferred Storm & Disaster Restoration Company
Wade’s Restoration isn’t a national chain with a call center in another time zone. It’s Wade Ferris, the owner, answering his phone at two in the morning when a thunderstorm has just put a limb through your roof. He has published his name, his address, and his license number for 29 years. The people who work with him are background-checked, uniformed, and trained to handle the specific failure modes of Atlanta homes. Ask anyone on your street. They’ve either used Wade or know someone who has.
Atlanta homeowners have been burned by national outfits that quote one price on the phone and a different one at the door. Wade operates differently. He gives you a written scope before work starts, documents moisture readings every single day of the job, and hands you the complete log when it’s done. Nobody else in the trade does that. His name is on the truck. He has to see you again at the hardware store on Saturday. That’s the oldest accountability mechanism there is.
For storm restoration specifically, the value of a local crew is hard to overstate. When Atlanta gets hit with one of its notorious summer squall lines or a January ice event, national companies can’t get trucks into narrow intown driveways or around alley-loaded garages. Wade’s crews use compact XPOWER and B-Air equipment that actually fits through tight clearances. They know Inman Park’s 1920s Craftsman bungalows sit on crawl spaces that flood. They know Grant Park’s century-old homes have roof structures that react to a falling limb very differently than a 2005 tract house in Cherokee County would.
Our Storm & Disaster Restoration Services in Atlanta
Our Storm & Disaster Restoration team handles every stage of the aftermath in Atlanta, from the first emergency call through reconstruction. The four services below cover the most common storm scenarios we see across the city.
Storm Damage Cleanup
After wind, hail, or a fallen limb tears into an Atlanta home, the immediate work is removing debris, securing the structure, and cataloguing the damage for insurance. We photograph everything before we move a single nail. We coordinate directly with your adjuster so you’re never the one stuck relaying details between two parties. For Atlanta homes on crawl spaces, cleanup also means addressing groundwater that pooled against the foundation during the same storm that took down the tree.
Flood Damage Restoration
Flooding in Atlanta comes from two directions: stormwater that overwhelms drainage during downpours and the city’s notoriously poor-draining red Georgia clay. That clay holds water against crawl-space walls and foundation piers, and it is a major reason our flood damage calls in neighborhoods like Kirkwood and East Atlanta recur in the same houses year after year. We extract standing water, run Dri-Eaz dehumidifiers until structural readings confirm dryness, and treat surfaces with antimicrobials before mold can get a foothold. Extraction can begin within the hour when you call, because Wade heads out himself.
Emergency Board-Up
A broken window or a hole punched through the roof needs to be sealed before the next Atlanta thunderstorm rolls through, and the next thunderstorm is never far away. Cheap plywood without proper sealing will fail during the next downpour and force a second emergency call. Our board-up crews seal openings with materials that hold up against sudden Atlanta cloudbursts, and we can usually get someone to your home in under 90 minutes. Don’t wait until the storm passes through. A roof breach in a crawl-space home begins growing mold on the joists within 48 to 72 hours, and by then you’re no longer looking at structural repair. You’re looking at full mold remediation.
Roof Tarping
Until permanent roof repair can happen, tarping is what keeps the water out. Atlanta’s summer thunderstorms are intense and frequent, so a proper tarp job means more than throwing blue plastic over a hole. It means tying it down against wind gusts from the next squall line and sealing the edges so rainwater doesn’t find a seam. We stock professional tarping materials for Atlanta’s varied housing stock, from steep-pitch bungalow roofs in Inman Park to ranch ramblers out in North Druid Hills. A properly secured tarp can buy you the days or weeks needed to work with your adjuster and schedule the permanent repair, but only if it’s done right the first time.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Trusted Brands We Service in Atlanta
Wade’s Restoration runs professional-grade equipment from Dri-Eaz for dehumidification, Phoenix for high-capacity drying, and XPOWER for compact air movement in tight intown spaces. These are the brands trusted by serious restoration professionals, not the rental-counter units you can pick up at a big-box store. Because our Atlanta crews keep this equipment stocked and maintained locally, we don’t wait for a shipment from a regional hub when your Grant Park bungalow is sitting open to the weather. IICRC-certified technicians run the gear, and RIA and IFA standards guide the work. Plenty of companies can show you van graphics. Very few can show you the daily moisture log from a Phoenix meter at job’s end. We hand that log to every Atlanta customer.
Common Storm & Disaster Restoration Problems We See in Atlanta Homes
The same patterns show up again and again after Atlanta storms, and knowing them in advance means knowing when to call before small damage becomes a rebuild.
- Fallen limbs through roofs. Atlanta’s canopy is the highest of any major U.S. city, which means a single summer thunderstorm can drop a dozen mature water oaks or loblolly pines onto homes in one neighborhood. The damage starts as a roof breach but becomes a water and mold problem within two days.
- Crawl-space flooding from poor clay drainage. Atlanta’s red clay soil holds water instead of draining it. Homes on crawl-space foundations, especially pre-1980 bungalows in Grant Park, Inman Park, and Kirkwood, get groundwater pooling against foundation walls during every heavy rain. Chronic moisture leads to mold remediation that repeats until drainage is addressed.
- Sudden downpours undoing shoddy board-up work. Atlanta’s rain arrives fast and hard. Board-up jobs done with unsealed plywood or loose tarp ties fail at the next storm and re-admit water into a structure that was already fragile. We see this constantly after a big storm, when homeowners called the cheapest crew first and now need a second emergency call.
- Tight access blocking standard equipment. Many intown Atlanta homes have narrow driveways and alley-loaded garages that a standard trailer-mounted air mover can’t reach. The full-size restoration trailer sits at the curb while the tech carries lightweight XPOWER and B-Air units through the side gate and into the crawl space. A crew without that equipment simply can’t dry those homes properly.
Pricing for Storm & Disaster Restoration in Atlanta, GA
We Also Serve Cities Near Atlanta
Storm calls don’t stop at the city line. Our crews regularly roll into Druid Hills, North Decatur, Gresham Park, and North Druid Hills for the same storm damage, board-up, and crawl-space flooding work we do across Atlanta. Same response time, same equipment, same owner answering the phone.
Serving Atlanta, GA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Atlanta area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs - Storm & Disaster Restoration in Atlanta
How quickly can you tarp a roof in Atlanta after a tree falls during a thunderstorm?
In most cases, we can have a roof tarped within 90 minutes to 2 hours of your call, depending on where you are in the metro and whether the storm is still active. During a widespread event like a January ice storm or a July squall line, that window can stretch to 3 or 4 hours because every compromised home in the neighborhood is calling at once. The fastest way to get our crew rolling is to call (888) 690-3757 the moment you see a limb through the roofline. Waiting until morning is how a roof breach becomes a mold remediation.
Do you handle the tree debris in the street or yard, or do I need a separate arborist?
We remove whatever is on the structure and restore the building envelope. That means we clear the limbs that have breached the roof or walls, tarp the opening, and document the damage. The tree itself, if it’s still standing or the trunk needs to be sectioned and hauled, usually requires a licensed arborist for the heavy cutting and removal. Where we help is coordination: we photograph the tree as it lies against your house for your insurance claim, and we can work alongside your arborist so the structural work doesn’t get delayed. If you don’t have an arborist, Wade can recommend one he has worked with in Atlanta.
My 1940s Kirkwood bungalow has a crawl space that floods every time it rains - can you fix that?
We can stop the active flooding and address the moisture, and we’ll also be straight with you about what “fix” means long-term. In a 1940s Kirkwood bungalow on a crawl-space foundation, standing water after every rain usually means the grading around the foundation has settled or the drainage is overwhelmed by Atlanta’s clay soil. We extract the water, run drying equipment, and apply antimicrobials, then we can install vapor barriers and drainage improvements that make the crawl space habitable again. If the fix requires regrading or foundation work, we’ll tell you that before we start and put it in writing. The 90-Day Done Right Promise applies to every moisture job we do, and Wade hands you the full moisture log when the job wraps.
Will my homeowners insurance cover storm damage restoration from a fallen tree in Atlanta?
In most cases, yes. Standard Georgia homeowners policies cover storm damage from wind and fallen trees, including the cost of emergency tarping, board-up, water extraction, and the subsequent reconstruction. The coverage depends on whether the tree was maintained and whether the policy has specific exclusions, but the overwhelming majority of Atlanta storm claims we handle are approved. What slows people down is the documentation. Wade deals with the insurance adjuster directly, sends photo-documented assessments, and provides the written scope and daily moisture logs the adjuster needs to approve your claim without three rounds of follow-up questions. Bring us your policy and the claim number, and we’ll handle the rest.
How do you prevent mold in an Atlanta crawl space after a storm floods it?
Move fast, and dry to a measured standard, not a guess. In Atlanta’s humidity, mold begins colonizing crawl-space joists within 48 to 72 hours after water enters. We start by extracting standing water, then run Dri-Eaz dehumidifiers and high-volume air movers until a Phoenix moisture meter confirms the wood has reached a dry standard. Then we apply antimicrobials to the joists and subfloor. That sequence, with daily moisture readings logged and handed to you at the end, is what actually prevents mold from taking hold. Skimp on any step and the mold comes back. Call (888) 690-3757 as soon as you see water in the crawl space.
Dealing With a Storm Right Now? Call Wade.
If a tree just came through your roof or your crawl space is filling with water, pick up the phone. You’ll get Wade Ferris himself, not a voicemail tree. He can have extraction running within the hour and a tarp over your roof before the next downpour. The number is (888) 690-3757. Estimates are free, there’s no trip charge inside the county, and every restoration job carries the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. To wade is what you do through a flooded basement at two in the morning. It happens to be his name, and he has been doing this work in Atlanta long enough to know exactly what your house needs before he even pulls into the driveway.
Written by Wade Ferris, Owner at Wade’s Restoration of Atlanta, serving Atlanta since 2007.