Jesús Adeva masters a great range of traditional techniques and building methods, which he applies in Toledo, a town with a distinctive architectural identity where diverse cultures have coexisted for centuries.

He works in refurbishment and restoration and also in new-build projects, coordinating and supervising other… craftspeople and performing tasks such as the restoration of timber and brick frameworks, wooden floors over undulating plaster ceilings, timber roof structures or wooden beam and panel ceilings, plastering with gypsum or plaster of Paris, or laying old brick and stone masonry, dry-stone walling, paving with pebbles and cobbles, brickwork vaults, lintels and arcades, rammed earth, and flooring or tiling. In exterior finishes he does all sorts of lime coatings, lime-repointing of Toledan brick-and-rubble masonry, lime and mud renders, stuccos, artistic frescos, sgraffiti, burnishing of finishes or traditional clay-slab tiling. His meticulous approach in what he does has led him even to make opus caementicium for the foundation of a column in a typical 16-century Toledan courtyard so as to avoid altering the structural balance with the other columns and to ensure that the materials were as close as possible to those used originally.

As to tools, as well as those now on the market allowing work to be performed more effectively or conveniently, he also uses traditional ones, indispensable for certain tasks, such as metal trowels, wooden floats, old plumb bobs, tampers, templates for octagonal brick columns, wooden gauge rods, stencils, wooden profiles for cutting ashlars, mallets and cold chisels, sledgehammers, compasses, centring form, scratch gauges, riddles and sieves, etc.