Peters Glass Shop is proud to announce the installation of the first glass tempering furnace in Belize. Tempered glass represents a unique challenge to discerning buyers, as all cutting and modification of the glass must be completed prior to the tempering process. This means that when importing, the cost is very high, logistics is very challenging, and there is zero margin for error. Having the ability to temper glass right here in Belize is very exciting. Stop buy our factory in Spanish Lookout today, or email us or call us for a price quote for your custom project.
New office complete!
We have been working hard over the past few months to build a new office & showroom. The office is now complete and we have moved in and we are ready to serve you. Please stop in for a visit.
You will find that more work is being done as we continue to prepare the new office to display many of our products, please bear with us through these disruptions.
We are also continuing work on our building expansion project. This will expand our facility from 33,000sqft to almost 70,000sqft.
We are hard are work expanding our factory in Spanish Lookout to serve you better.
We have recently begun working on an infrastructure expansion project which will double the size of our facility. The immense demand for our high quality doors & windows keeps us on our toes, and we are growing in response to this constant demand.
In addition, we have begun work on a new showroom to provide you a better, more informational shopping experience. We will be able to display more of our products, and you will be better suited to select products that will best suit your individual needs.
While these upgrades are under construction, we do ask your patience and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. We anticipate the office will be complete by the end of this year, and the factory expansion will be completed in the spring of 2019.
A quick video to show you new technology in action at Peters Glass Shop.
3D Printing at Peters Glass Shop
A quick video to show you new technology in action at Peters Glass Shop. Serving Belize since 2003.
Posted by Peters Glass Shop on Tuesday, December 13, 2016
How much money can LED light bulbs save you in Belize?
We recently converted our homes, offices and industrial warehouse to 100% LED lighting and learned much in the process, while saving a big bunch from electric bills. In brief; Living in Spanish Lookout and switching your whole home (20 bulbs) from incandescent to filament LED lighting, you would save an estimated BZ$2754, or about BZ$230 every month. For the rest of Belize where BEL supplies your energy, the savings would be an estimated BZ$1458 annually, or about $121 per month. And besides the big savings, we were able to customize and improve all the illumination variables with the top quality light bulbs specially imported by Allen Electric with Peters Glass Shop.
The first thing we had to learn about is Lumens and “candela”, which are respectively a measure of the total quantity of visible light emitted by a source and a measure of luminous intensity (analogous to radiant intensity). IKEA, an innovator in affordable home improvement, is doing a lot of LED education to get people to “think Lumens, not Watts”. As our culture still uses the old incandescent light bulbs Watt numbers as reference, then check the attached table as it comes very handy to compare them in Lumens.
With old bulbs it was an issue of economy against comfort to get an area well illuminated, but with the hi-tech LED lights we installed, the difference in electrical consumption between for example a 400 vs. a 800 lumen bulb is trivial; 6.3 watts vs. 10.5.
Other amazing advantage we found was its life span; From 6 months in average for the old ones vs. 22 to 34 years for this top quality LEDs!
Maybe you already found that LEDs dissipate less heat, which means that they waste less energy, but let’s talk about other kind of “temperature”. Light temperature is more about colors which are based on the color given off by heated metal. Because of old incandescent bulbs and candles, what is called warm light is in fact a cooler color temperature… What? The answer comes from a lighting company: “It is important to remember that indoor spaces lit to lower light levels will typically look and feel better under warm lamps, while higher light levels are easier to tolerate using cool lighting. A space which receives an abundance of sunlight may seem more natural when cooler lamps are installed since their light is closer to high colour temperature of natural daylight.”
To close, we will ask: Do you think it’s time to switch to hi quality LED light bulbs? …They are cheap in the short and in the long timeframe, their light quality is excellent, they will probably outlast many of us and they use a fraction of the electricity of old bulbs.
At least our answer is: For own advantage and for the environment, we all better dump the incandescent and the compact fluorescents bulbs now!
Where to find the best ones in Belize? There is a limited amount of them going on sale at Peters Glass Shop in Spanish Lookout, with these options available:
– Standard indoor 110 Volts AC from 3 to 12 Watts, in cool and warm versions.
– High intensity outdoor 30 Watts with motion sensor.
– For solar installations, efficient 12 Volt DC from 0.6 to 72 Watts sets, in cool and warm versions.
– RGB (color changing) full kits.
– And some other great accessories like special transformers, rechargeable waterproof pocket flashlights and more.
New technology in action!
One major challenge for manufacturers around the world is the process of research & developement (or “R&D) which requires “prototyping”. In the past, we would design a part and draw technical pictures of it, then send the design to a factory where they would develope a “prototype” (or “test”) of the part. They would send the prototype back to the customer who would evaluate the part and either confirm the design, or make modifications. This could easily go on for multiple revisions, each time costing hundreds or thousands of dollars and weeks or months of delay.
Thankfully, technology now allows us to do “rapid prototyping” with 3D printing technology. We can develope an idea, draw the design in a 3D rendering program on the computer, then send the design to a 3D extruding printer, which melts and extrudes various types of plastics to build a 3D model of the object. The biggest advance is in the time, what took months or even years in the past, can now be done in hours.
We recieved the MakerGear M2 3D printer mid January, and have already been successful in developing several new prototypes for new product parts and improvements for older products.
