"Aaron Fude" wrote in message
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Hi,

A contractor built these very unattractive cubby holes in our bathroom
wall so we came with this brilliant idea to have custom made hammered
copper inserts and had those made in Mexico at a considerable cost. Of
course, they were made larger than the specs and they do not fit. I
can see the picture here.

http://freeboundaries.com/inserts.jpg

My first reaction is to grind the tile down a little bid around the
edges (only the edges of pieces facing the viewer) and I think that
might just get them in there.

Is there a tool that would do it for me "in place"? I do recall
drilling 1/4" holes in these tiles and that taking me about an hour
per hole so I'm apprehensive about the strength of the material. So
I'm open to ideas!

Thank you very much in advance,

Aaron Fude.

you can get a 4" side grinder that will do it with either a dry diamond
blade or a grinding blade. it will be incredibly noisy, dusty, and will
throw lots of small pieces of tile around. wear eye, ear, breathing, and
body protection. you'll also have to deal with the dust produced in keeping
it out of the rest of the house.

sure you don't want to just tell the place you bought them they're the wrong
size and they should fix their screwups?