Width of slate tiles for door canopy/porch

[tractor-pete]

I bought a small wooden door canopy/porch like this one and I want to put slate tiles on it.

Apex Pine Door Canopy - 1190 x 1560mm | Wickes.co.uk

Apex Pine Door Canopy - 1190 x 1560mm

www.wickes.co.uk

Its 60cm wide, so guessing 5cm over hang on the front/verge, so total of 65cm wide.

What width tiles should I use? 200mm 250mm or 300mm?

I know I can use one-and-a-half width tiles and I can't half a tile if it will be less than 150mm.

What would the bottom row of eave tiles be?
200mm wide tiles => (wall) 150mm + 200mm + 300mm (verge) - using 1.5 tile
250mm wide tiles => (wall) 275mm + 375mm (verge)
300mm wide tiles => (wall) 200mm + 300mm + 150mm (verge)

I'm also trying to figure out what's the best layout to make it look even, so there's not a big tile on the left and a tiny tile on the right.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I'm also trying to figure out what's the best layout to make it look even, so there's not a big tile on the left and a tiny tile on the right.

The smallest tile available, because they are close to the eye, and therefore will appear to be larger, than the tiles on the roof. Tiles, with a little practise, can be cut down to size - simply even out the widths.

Use something like a (naughty word) machete, with the tile propped on the edge of a firm vertical surface, where you want it cut. I remember doing exactly that, as a 10-year-old, on my uncle's farm.

 

[tractor-pete]

Ah ok! I've actually got a machete and never used it haha thanks.

Smallest tiles I've found are 200mm, but wouldn't I end up cutting a half tile to be less than 150mm if I did that.

So if it's 65cm and i want them centered, do you mean cut them down to 65/4 = 16.25cm each?

But then I couldn't do a half tile of 8.12cm for verge.

So should I do a 1 and half tile width of 24.5cm?

Sorry, I'm super confused haha

 

[tractor-pete]

So if I do tiles of 16.25cm wide (where one-and-half-tile is 25.36cm) I guess that will look slightly better.

1st row => 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
2nd row => 1.5 + 1 + 1.5

and accounting for a 3mm gap between each