Malerei Zbinden
Close-up of a paint roller on freshly rolled, still wet blue-black wall paint; window light reflects in the paint with prismatic colour.

Latest job

Tinte on lime plaster

Two coats, rolled. Edges cut in by brush. Apartment in Meilen, 2025.

Painters in Meilen ZH · since 2004

Malerei Zbinden

Six services, one hand. Covering up and clearing out are always included.

  • Interior painting

    Walls and ceilings in emulsion, silicate or lime. Two coats, edges by hand, skirting boards taped.

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    • Apartments, stairwells, practices
    • Check the substrate, prime, fill
    • Handed back swept and untaped
    Paint roller on a pale wall in the raking light of a tall old window.

  • Wallpaper

    Non-woven, woodchip, glass fibre. Butt joints, patterns run through. We strip the old paper.

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    • Non-woven and woodchip, paintable
    • Glass fibre for stairwells
    • Corners and alcoves without a seam
    Empty room with fleece drop cloth on the parquet, masking tape on the door frame and skirting, a wooden ladder in the light.

  • Plaster and glaze

    Smooth filler, lime plaster, glaze in two or three layers. For walls you want to touch.

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    • Marmorino and polished lime
    • Glazes on lime and emulsion
    • A 1 m² sample on your wall
    A hand draws a wide steel filling blade across a wall in raking light.

  • Facades

    Clean rendered facades, close cracks, two coats of silicate or siloxane paint. We organise the scaffold.

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    • Pressure washing and algae treatment
    • Silicate, siloxane or lime
    • Scaffold, permits, neighbours
    Freshly painted facade of an apartment building with scaffold, green shutters and a view of the lake.

  • Timber protection

    Shutters, balconies, soffits. Sand, prime, two coats of glaze or opaque paint.

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    • Shutters taken down and rehung
    • Glaze or opaque, water-based
    • Maintain every 6 to 8 years
    A flat brush draws grey glaze across the slats of an old shutter resting on two trestles.

  • Colour advice

    At your home, in your light. We paint three samples on the wall and leave them for a day.

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    • Included with every job
    • Samples on the wall, not on paper
    • Colour card with eight house colours
    Four painted colour sample cards in white, light grey, grey and black on a wooden table next to a pencil and a paint tin.

Colour card8 colours

Eight house colours, mixed for lime plaster. We paint samples on your wall, not on paper.

Screen colours differ. The sample on the wall is what counts.

Projects

Five jobs from the past three years, with area and duration.

  • Apartment, 4½ rooms

    Interior, ceilings and walls

    Place Meilen2025142 m²4 daysKalk

  • Apartment building

    Facade, silicate, two coats

    Place Meilen2025380 m²9 daysKalk

  • Medical practice

    Interior, glass fibre

    Place Uetikon am See202496 m²3 daysSeenebel

  • Stairwell

    Plaster and glaze, dark dado

    Place Herrliberg202458 m²5 daysTanne

  • Family house

    Facade and 14 shutters

    Place Männedorf2023620 m²12 daysKiesel

Before / AfterApartment building, Meilen

Before · Washed-out render, weathered shuttersSilicate in Kalk, shutters in Schilf · After
Weathered facade of an apartment building with scaffold: washed-out render, water streaks, peeling shutters.
The same facade after painting: smooth warm-white render, shutters in muted green, scaffold still up.
Apartment building, Meilen · 380 m² · 9 days · 2025Drag

About

A wall is finished when you can no longer see the work.

Christian Zbinden, master painter, has run the company since 2004. 4 painters, 1 apprentice, 1 person in the office. Whoever answers the phone will later be up the ladder.

2004
since
6
staff
180
jobs a year
3
working days to a quote

Colour advice included

Workshop: two aluminium ladders against the wall, a shelf of paint buckets, folded drop cloths and brushes in jars.

Contact

Quote

The more precise, the more precise the quote. It arrives within 3 working days.

Direct
044 923 55 14
buero@malerei-zbinden.example
Object
m²
Required: Name, Phone, Object

Location

Meilen

8706 Meilen ZH · Right shore of Lake Zurich, 20 minutes from Zurich main station

Office and store

Malerei Zbinden
Seestrasse 120
8706 Meilen

Office hours

Mon–Fri07:00–12:00
13:00–17:00
Sat–Sunclosed

Contact

044 923 55 14buero@malerei-zbinden.example

Service area

Right shore of Lake Zurich, from Zollikon to Rapperswil. Further by arrangement.