Fast, Reliable Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Across Stone Mountain
Fire and smoke damage in Stone Mountain needs two things at once: fast board-up so the house isn’t open to weather and wildlife off Memorial Drive, and a restoration crew that understands what the granite dome does to moisture in this area. We’ve been answering calls from Stone Mountain homeowners since 2007, and we’re on the road within the hour for emergency response. Call (888) 690-3757 and you’ll reach a live person who can actually do something about it – Wade himself answers his own phone, day or night.
Why Wade’s Restoration of Atlanta Is Stone Mountain’s Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Company
Wade’s Restoration isn’t a franchise van that drives in from another county. Wade Ferris lives here, publishes his address and license number, and runs into his customers at the Kroger on Rockbridge Road. That’s the oldest accountability mechanism there is, and it’s why people in 30083, 30086, 30087, and 30088 call us first when there’s smoke in the walls and soot on every surface.
Our crews know the streets here. We know the older brick ranches near Stone Mountain Village that still have asbestos-containing floor tile under three layers of vinyl. We know the split-levels on the south side of the dome where water pools against foundations after a two-inch afternoon thunderstorm. We don’t have to pull up a map to find your street. We’re likely already working a job four blocks away.
Stone Mountain homeowners tell us the same thing after every fire: the adjuster is slow, the board-up took a day, and the mitigation crew treated their house like a generic job. That’s exactly what Wade built this company to fix. One call brings Wade out. He writes a scope before any work starts, takes moisture readings every single day, and hands you the full log when the job is done. Almost nobody else in this trade does that.
Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Services in Stone Mountain
Fire Damage Cleanup
Fire cleanup in Stone Mountain means more than hauling out charred drywall and framing. The area’s 1950s-1980s housing stock has aged wiring, older panel boxes, and duct runs that hide soot in places you can’t see. We trace every void, check every chase, and make sure what burned isn’t going to come back as an odor problem next summer when the humidity sits at 85 percent for a week straight. Before we tear into anything in an older Stone Mountain Village home, we test for asbestos in floor tile and pipe insulation. That’s not optional. It’s the law, and it keeps your family safe.
Smoke & Soot Removal
Soot is acidic and it keeps working on surfaces long after the fire is out. On the brick ranch homes so common in 30087 and 30088, we see soot that has penetrated painted plaster, sealed into the pores of old-growth brick, and settled into the crawl space vents. Our crews use HEPA vacuums, dry chemical sponges, and controlled demolition to remove the layers that household cleaners will just spread around. If the fire started in a detached workshop on an acreage property off Hugh Howell Road, we treat the building separately – heavy metal soot on uninsulated walls behaves differently than kitchen smoke in a closed house.
Odor Removal & Deodorization
Smoke odor in Stone Mountain homes is a chemistry problem with a geography problem bolted on top. The granite bedrock that makes this area unusual also keeps groundwater from draining away, which means crawl spaces stay wetter longer than they do in Tucker or Decatur. Wet wood holds smoke molecules. Even after the main living area tests clean, that crawl space can release odor back into the house every time the AC kicks on. So we treat both at once: hydroxyl generators and thermal fogging for the living space, paired with structural drying and negative-air extraction in the crawl. Skip the second half and the smell returns by August. We’ve seen it too many times to let it happen to you.
Contents Cleaning & Pack-Out
When smoke gets into furniture, clothing, and family photos, we can either clean on-site or pack out to our contents facility. Stone Mountain homes with separate basements and crawl spaces often have twice the stored belongings of a typical Atlanta slab house. That’s just how people live here – you’ve got the wedding dishes in boxes, the hunting gear, the Christmas stuff, all of it picking up smoke. We photograph everything, inventory it, clean it properly, and store it until the structure is done. Your adjuster gets a full itemized log. You get your grandmother’s quilt back without a smoke smell.
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 Run in Stone Mountain
We don’t mess around with hardware-store fans and rented dehumidifiers. Our crews run Dri-Eaz LGR 7000Xli dehumidifiers, Phoenix AirMax fans, and XPOWER air scrubbers on every fire job in Stone Mountain. The Dri-Eaz units pull water out of saturated framing while the XPOWER scrubbers pull smoke out of the air at the same time. That dual setup matters here because fire-damaged crawl spaces south of the dome are often holding groundwater from a storm that hit days before the fire. Our Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration team pairs the right equipment to the right problem, not whatever’s in the truck that day.
Common Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration Problems We See in Stone Mountain Homes
- Granite-driven groundwater in fire-damaged crawl spaces. After a kitchen fire off Rockbridge Road in 30083, our techs found the crawl space still weeping groundwater from a storm days earlier. The decomposed granite layer stopped our first sump placement at 18 inches, so we paired a Dri-Eaz LGR 7000Xli with two Phoenix AirMax fans for drying while running an Injectidry negative-air system to pull smoke out of the saturated floor framing. One trip, done right.
- French drains that hit bedrock before they work. Standard exterior French drains often fail in the neighborhoods immediately south and west of the granite dome. The shallow decomposed granite layer hits impermeable rock before a drain can be seated at effective depth. That leaves the crawl space wet for the next fire or smoke loss, and the odor problem comes right back.
- Asbestos hiding in 1950s-era Stone Mountain Village homes. Older homes near the Village may contain asbestos-containing floor tile and pipe insulation that must be identified before any invasive restoration work. Skipping that test exposes crews and families to real hazards. We test every time on pre-1980 builds.
- Ice storm damage that starts as a small fire. Metro Atlanta ice storms load power lines and tree limbs, which means downed lines and overloaded circuits. A small wiring fire that starts during a January ice event often becomes a bigger problem because the house is already cold, wet, and open to the elements during board-up. We see this spike every single winter in the 30083 and 30086 ZIP codes.
Pricing for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Stone Mountain, GA
Here are honest numbers for Stone Mountain’s market, not a national average off some website. Emergency board-up and tarping on a standard brick ranch in 30083 typically runs $800 to $1,400 depending on the number of openings and whether you need plywood or just poly. Smoke and soot removal on a single-room kitchen fire usually lands between $2,500 and $5,500. Full odor removal with hydroxyl treatment and thermal fogging adds $1,500 to $3,000. Contents cleaning and pack-out for a whole-house fire generally runs $4,000 to $12,000 depending on volume. A crawl-space fire with groundwater issues, the kind we see south of the dome, typically costs $6,000 to $15,000 because we’re drying and deodorizing at the same time. Every job gets a written scope and upfront pricing before work starts, and we offer a free second opinion on any written estimate. Call (888) 690-3757 for an exact quote.
We Also Serve Cities Near Stone Mountain
Wade’s Restoration of Atlanta serves Stone Mountain and the surrounding DeKalb County communities, including Mountain Park, Tucker, Clarkston, and Redan. If you’re in one of those towns and dealing with fire or smoke damage, you’ll get the same owner-operated service. Wade’s name is on the truck, his cell number is in your call log, and he stands behind the 90-Day Done Right Promise on every job. Learn more about what we do across the metro at our Stone Mountain service area page.
Serving Stone Mountain, GA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Stone Mountain 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 - Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Stone Mountain
Stone Mountain’s impermeable granite bedrock stops groundwater from percolating down, so it pools in lower-lying residential areas instead. A fire-damaged crawl space in 30083 often sits on saturated decomposed granite that standard sump pumps can’t seat into at effective depth. We pair structural drying equipment like the Dri-Eaz LGR 7000Xli with negative-air smoke extraction to handle both water and odor in one trip. If someone dried the space without treating the odor, you’d smell smoke again the moment humidity spiked. Call (888) 690-3757 and we’ll come look at your specific crawl space.
Yes. Homes built between the late 1950s and early 1980s in the Stone Mountain Village area often contain asbestos-containing floor tile and pipe insulation. Any invasive demo work – pulling charred drywall, removing flooring, cutting out pipe runs – can release asbestos fibers if you don’t test first. We test every pre-1980 home before we start cutting. It adds a day and a few hundred dollars, and it keeps your family safe and your crew legal.
Summer afternoons here regularly drop two or more inches of rain in under an hour, and the granite dome sends that water straight into neighboring yards and crawl spaces. Wet framing absorbs smoke molecules deep into the wood. Once the wood dries on its own, those molecules release back into the house, which is why the smell returns. We run dehumidification and odor treatment at the same time on every post-storm fire job, so the framing dries clean instead of drying smoky.
Metro Atlanta gets ice storms far more often than snow, and ice is heavier on power lines, gutters, and tree limbs. Downed lines and overloaded circuits start electrical fires in homes that aren’t winterized. The fire itself is usually small, but the house is already cold and wet, and board-up becomes critical because freezing rain keeps coming through open windows. We prioritize fast board-up and tarping on every Stone Mountain ice-storm call because the damage compounds hourly.
A detached workshop or barn on an acreage property off Hugh Howell Road or Rockbridge Road is more exposed than a house in a subdivision. It sits farther from the street, often has oversized doors and no neighbors watching, and is a target for scavengers, wildlife, and weather the moment fire leaves it open. Board-up secures the structure before rain or vandals make a bad situation worse. We bring the plywood, the hardware, and the manpower to do it in one trip, even on a long gravel drive.
Call Wade’s Restoration for Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration in Stone Mountain
If you’ve had a fire in Stone Mountain, don’t wait for the adjuster to get back to you. Call (888) 690-3757 right now. Wade answers his own phone and can have a crew on the road to your street within the hour. You’ll get a written scope before work starts, direct adjuster communication so you’re never stuck relaying information, and the 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If it’s not done right, Wade makes it right. That’s been true since 2007.
Written by Wade Ferris, Owner at Wade’s Restoration of Atlanta, serving Stone Mountain since 2007.