Wade's Restoration in Virginia

Wade’s Restoration in Virginia

Wade’s Restoration brings owner-operated damage restoration to Virginia homeowners who have learned to ask the hard questions first. Since 2007, Wade Ferris has handled water extraction, fire cleanup, and mold remediation across Virginia with his name on the truck, his address published, and his cell number given out freely. As part of the Locally family, our Wade S Restoration services carry our guarantee on every Virginia job: the owner you speak with is the owner who shows up, and the price quoted on the phone matches the invoice. Virginia’s mix of older farmhouses, river-adjacent properties, and seasonal storm exposure means damage restoration here demands someone who understands local building materials and won’t treat your county like a territory number. Wade does.

Why Virginia Homeowners Choose Wade’s Restoration

Virginia homeowners who have already been burned once know the pattern. The out-of-state truck, the phone quote that tripled at the door, the number that stopped working when the drywall started sagging. Wade Ferris built his business on being the alternative you can verify before you let him past your porch.

It starts with the phone. When you call Wade’s Restoration, a live person answers - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No voicemail tree, no answering service reading a script, no “we’ll have someone call you back.” Wade answers his own phone, and when Virginia’s summer storms blow water through a window well or a January pipe burst floods your kitchen, that means extraction can be running inside the hour. Not tomorrow. Not “we’ll schedule you.” Inside the hour.

But speed without honesty is just another way to get taken. Wade’s 90-Day Done Right Promise is stamped in writing on every restoration contract: if it’s not done right, he makes it right. No arguments, no finger-pointing, no disappearing act. He takes moisture readings every single day and hands you the full log when the job ends - a practice almost nobody in this trade bothers with, because it creates accountability they would rather avoid. His technicians are background-checked, uniformed, and equipped with professional-grade gear from Dri-Eaz, Phoenix, Injectidry, XPOWER, and B-Air. The credentials behind them - IICRC-certified, RIA-affiliated, IFA-recognized - matter because they give your adjuster something solid to work with.

And Wade deals with that adjuster directly. You are not the relay operator between two sides that barely talk to each other. He documents everything with photos, communicates scope in writing before work starts, and coordinates with insurance so you are not left holding the bag for “surprise” uncovered items. For Virginia homeowners in small towns and rural counties, this matters especially. You do not have four remediation companies to choose from. You need the one you choose to be straight with you from the first call.

Wade lives here. He shops where you shop. He will see you again at the hardware store, which is the oldest accountability mechanism there is. His address is published. His license number is published. His name is on the truck. In Virginia, that still means something.

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, numbers that stopped working. Today, that same standard extends to Wade’s Restoration in West Virginia - Damage Restoration and other states. He wrote down what a homeowner could verify in five minutes - local area code, published address, owner’s name and face, license number you can look up - and offered his name to any company that would publish all four. That list is still the entire standard.

Wade’s Restoration met that standard in 2007 and has kept it since, with the same commitment now available through Wade’s Restoration in Wisconsin - Damage Restoration. Every Virginia job carries the Locally guarantee: the person who answers the phone is the person who shows up, and the price he says on the phone is the price on the invoice. Our L.O.C.A.L. values code - Local roots, On time, Community first, Accountable, Loyal - is not decoration. It is how Wade operates in the counties he serves. He hires here, buys here, and sponsors the team here. He would rather keep you for twenty years than win one big ticket. That is why the Locally family stands behind him.

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