Restore Tide Blue 4-1/4 in. x 4-1/4 in. Glazed Ceramic Wall Tile (12.5 sq. ft. / case)

I kiln fire designs on glazed ceramic tiles and the Daltile Restore has been a great addition to the various color white tiles that I can offer to my customers. The quality and price is very good. Since Home Depot can offer the tile in stock (as of September 2021) to buyers it makes it easy for my customers to buy the plain tiles to surround my decorated tiles. I also use the Classic White 0100-551-P4 Daltile for orders that Home Depot offers on line to purchase. The Classic white goes well with the Botanical and Blue and White Designs. As a small business tile decorator I am grateful to Home Depot for offering tile at a reasonable price to customers to buy per single tile or by the box. I am attaching a few pictures of tile installations that my customers have sent to me. I fire the tiles to nearly 1600 degrees F so you can see the tiles are pretty durable.

Beautiful. Easy to cut without a wet saw

Easy to work with and cuts well. We used a charcoal color grout which shows the slight imperfections on the cut side. But if done correctly this can be avoided. Overall, very happy with the outcome

Used this beautiful white subway tile in both of my remodels for my new kitchen as a backsplash. Also, in my new master bathroom in the shower and on the walls. Love this tile.

Picture talk by itself

Love love love this look! Install is relatively simple if your familiar with tiling. We used this in our shower and are so happy we did. The smooth finish is nice to the touch and easy to clean.

Ok so I LOVE how this turned out. We did a full floor to ceiling curbless walk-in shower/wet room and it’s gorgeous IMO. BUT this tile requires careful inspection and install. Based on previous reviews, we inspected EVERY tile very thoroughly prior to placement and found MANY with chips, cracks and flawed edges. So many so that I marked them with a grease pencil to use as cut pieces. After eliminating those, we began install. We chose a 1/3 overlap pattern in what I would describe as a backwards stairstep bc when placed in ascending order (aka up then over, up then over going toward the right), your eyes were instantly drawn to what looked like stair steps… especially if you did 1/4 overlap since the up and over portions both equalled 4 inches. Our pattern was still up and over, but climbed to the left which mitigates the visual stair effect. NEXT the manufacturer specifies max overlap 1/3 bc of the variation in tile thickness. The middle of EVERY tile is thicker due to compression/manufacturing method. If you overlap 50 50 in a traditional brick pattern, you WILL see this hump in each tile and the result is unsightly as pointed out by other reviews. Last, but certainly not least, is cracking during/after install. We double studded all our walls and used hardibacker with redguard for waterproofing and crack mitigation and STILL had tiles crack. It’s almost unavoidable with tile of these dimensions… it’s long and narrow and if you push hard (which you need to do for good adhesion) some tiles will crack (always vertically… picture one hand on each end of a long tile). Some cracked during install. As this happened, we removed and replaced. The problem came with the tiles that cracked while the mortar dried!!! SUPER frustrating bc those hairline cracks became visible when we started to grout. We had to go ahead and grout bc we had mixed it all and there wasn’t much turning back, but we also didn’t realize just how many had cracked. About 1/12 :( after grouting, we took a diamond blade on an oscillating tool and painstakingly removed each cracked tile. VERY DUSTY, VERY HARD AND VERY SLOW. Some additional tiles were damaged during this horrendous venture nessecitating removal of additonal tiles…. prob 1/10 in the end. It was a learning process. We then regrouted and have this gorgeous shower, but I would probably have chosen 12x24 if I had known all this sooner. We were unable to remove one cracked tile due to it’s proximity to the ceiling and the fact it was mortared to the metal trim piece we used to finish the corner. We were afraid to damage that trim piece resulting in the need to remove it (and every tile attached to it) entirely!!! I would have died. It’s invisble to everyone, but us and i mostly forget about it, but i included a pic of it. SYNOPSIS: beautiful result, was it worth it? Thats debatable. Might’ve used different tile, if I had known bc I’m fearful of future cracks and the repair it will involve. We kept plenty of tile just in case ! I am resubmitting my review outside of the app so I can add more pics

Ok so I LOVE how this turned out. We did a full floor to ceiling curbless walk-in shower/wet room and it’s gorgeous IMO. BUT this tile requires careful inspection and install. Based on previous reviews, we inspected EVERY tile very thoroughly prior to placement and found MANY with chips, cracks and flawed edges. So many so that I marked them with a grease pencil to use as cut pieces. After eliminating those, we began install. We chose a 1/3 overlap pattern in what I would describe as a backwards stairstep bc when placed in ascending order (aka up then over, up then over going toward the right), your eyes were instantly drawn to what looked like stair steps… especially if you did 1/4 overlap since the up and over portions both equalled 4 inches. Our pattern was still up and over, but climbed to the left which mitigates the visual stair effect. NEXT the manufacturer specifies max overlap 1/3 bc of the variation in tile thickness. The middle of EVERY tile is thicker due to compression/manufacturing method. If you overlap 50 50 in a traditional brick pattern, you WILL see this hump in each tile and the result is unsightly as pointed out by other reviews. Last, but certainly not least, is cracking during/after install. We double studded all our walls and used hardibacker with redguard for waterproofing and crack mitigation and STILL had tiles crack. It’s almost unavoidable with tile of these dimensions… it’s long and narrow and if you push hard (which you need to do for good adhesion) some tiles will crack (always vertically… picture one hand on each end of a long tile). Some cracked during install. As this happened, we removed and replaced. The problem came with the tiles that cracked while the mortar dried!!! SUPER frustrating bc those hairline cracks became visible when we started to grout. We had to go ahead and grout bc we had mixed it all and there wasn’t much turning back, but we also didn’t realize just how many had cracked. About 1/12 :( after grouting, we took a diamond blade on an oscillating tool and painstakingly removed each cracked tile. VERY DUSTY, VERY HARD AND VERY SLOW. Some additional tiles were damaged during this horrendous venture nessecitating removal of additonal tiles…. prob 1/10 in the end. It was a learning process. We then regrouted and have this gorgeous shower, but I would probably have chosen 12x24 if I had known all this sooner. We were unable to remove one cracked tile due to it’s proximity to the ceiling and the fact it was mortared to the metal trim piece we used to finish the corner. We were afraid to damage that trim piece resulting in the need to remove it (and every tile attached to it) entirely!!! I would have died. It’s invisble to everyone, but us and i mostly forget about it, but i included a pic of it. SYNOPSIS: beautiful result, was it worth it? Thats debatable. Might’ve used different tile, if I had known bc I’m fearful of future cracks and the repair it will involve. We kept plenty of tile just in case ! I would add more pics if I could

Brightens up the space!

very fragile and dimensions way off of nominal 12"x4", it messed up plans for combining this with 12"x24" floor tiles, grout lines didn't match..