Wade's Restoration in Arkansas

Wade’s Restoration in Arkansas

Wade’s Restoration brings owner-operated damage restoration to Arkansas homeowners who have learned to ask the hard questions first. Wade Ferris has been at this since 2007, and his name is on the truck, his address is published, and his cell number goes straight to his pocket. Across Arkansas, from the river counties to the Ozark foothills, Wade handles water damage, fire and smoke restoration, mold remediation, and storm recovery with the same approach: moisture logs you can hold in your hand, direct conversations with your adjuster, and a 90-Day Done Right Promise stamped in writing on every contract. As part of the Locally family, Wade S Restoration specialists carry a guarantee you can verify in five minutes before you ever make the call.

Why Arkansas Homeowners Choose Wade’s Restoration

Arkansas homeowners have heard the story too many times. The truck rolls up with plates from three states away, the crew can’t name the last high school football game they watched, and the number that worked yesterday rings to a call center today. Wade Ferris started Wade’s Restoration in 2007 because he figured there had to be a better way to run a restoration company, one where the owner still answers his own phone at midnight when a pipe has burst through the kitchen ceiling - the same standard that defines Wade’s Restoration in Georgia - Damage Restoration.

Here’s what that looks like in practice. When water is spreading through your living room, you call and a live person answers, 24 hours a day. No voicemail tree, no “we’ll have someone call you back,” no runaround. Wade has extraction equipment running inside the hour because he lives here, he works here, and he knows which back roads save twenty minutes when every minute matters. His technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and trained to IICRC standards, but here’s the part almost nobody else does: Wade takes moisture readings every single day and hands you the full log when the job is done. That log is your proof that the wall is actually dry, not just dry enough to paint over.

On the insurance side, Wade deals with your adjuster directly. You are not the messenger between two parties who speak different languages. He documents everything with photos, submits the scope, and argues for the coverage you have already paid for. His equipment comes from names that matter in this trade, Dri-Eaz, Phoenix, Injectidry, XPOWER, and B-Air, because cheap fans cost more in the long run when mold shows up six months later. And if something is not right, the 90-Day Done Right Promise means Wade makes it right, in writing, no charge for the callback. One call brings Wade back. Ask anyone on your street who has used him.

Backed by the Locally Family

Locally started in 1997 when a retired county extension agent named Ward Selby got tired of hearing the same story: out-of-state plates, phone quotes that tripled at the door, and numbers that stopped working the minute something went wrong. That same problem is why homeowners now seek out Wade’s Restoration in California - Damage Restoration and other verified local operators. He wrote down what a homeowner could actually verify before letting anyone inside: a local phone number a person answers, an address you can drive to, the owner’s name and face, and a license number you can look up. Wade’s Restoration meets that standard and carries the Locally name because Wade publishes all four.

The Locally guarantee applies to every Wade’s Restoration job across Arkansas. The person who answers the phone is the person who shows up. The price Wade says on the phone is the price on the invoice. The L.O.C.A.L. values code is not decoration. Local roots means Wade’s address is in Arkansas, not a call center in another time zone. Accountable means his name is on the work. Loyal means he would rather restore your home right and earn your call twenty years from now than cut a corner for one big ticket. Wade is going to run into you again on a Saturday at the hardware store or the feed store or the ballgame. That is the oldest accountability mechanism there is, and it still works.

Written by Wade Ferris, Owner at Wade’s Restoration, serving Arkansas since 2007.