{"id":3956,"date":"2026-07-22T13:01:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2026-07-22T13:01:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:01:20","slug":"free-spinners-game-thursday-folk-fest-friday-and-some-plumbing-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/uncategorized\/free-spinners-game-thursday-folk-fest-friday-and-some-plumbing-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Spinners Game Thursday, Folk Fest Friday, and some Plumbing Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1500873832080009&amp;set=a.562161492617919\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lowell Spinners game at LeLacheur Park tomorrow against Vermont<\/a> is free. It&#8217;s live on NESN and they&#8217;d like to Pack the Park to show Lowell&#8217;s enthusiasm. Gates open at 6pm for a 7 o&#8217;clock game and seating is first come first served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lowellfolkfestival.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lowell Folk Festival<\/a> begins at 6:15 Friday. It&#8217;s an amazing event with great music right outside our door. Keep in mind that skateboards, hoverboards, Segways, <em><strong>bicycles<\/strong><\/em>, and drones are NOT allowed at the Festival, so any of those items cannot go out the front way during the event. Leave extra time if you&#8217;re traveling to navigate the crowds and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/festivalroadmap.pdf\">closed roads<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An owner has shared his experience replacing his toilet recently and has included some info about back outlet toilets (required by our plumbing setup). Here&#8217;s what he found:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I just had a toilet installed by Murphy Plumbing.\u00a0 They charged me $1750 to install a Kohler toilet.\u00a0 They also charged me $250 for a service call just to come out; something I feel they should have added to the total bill.\u00a0 They didn&#8217;t tell me the price of a service call.\u00a0 To be honest, I&#8217;ve never had a contractor behave in this manner.\u00a0 Quotes and looks don&#8217;t cost anything.\u00a0 They make it on the receiving end once they get the job.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I didn&#8217;t get an itemized listing of the price of the\u00a0toilet but I thought the price was something like $1500 but I was way off.\u00a0 The rear outlet toilet comes in two series:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8211; Wellworth K-4303 ($350) (about 15 inches tall to seat)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8211; Highline K-4304 ($350) (about 17 inches tall to seat)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>These are paired with the top part, the pressure assisted tank.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8211; K-4484 ($330)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>So combined, the cost is less than $800 total.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The difference between the Wellworth and the Highline is height.\u00a0 Otherwise, they are identical.\u00a0 If someone is wanting to match one of their existing toilets, it&#8217;s good to know the difference.\u00a0 If they&#8217;re comfortable at one height, tell the plumber your preference.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lowell Spinners game at LeLacheur Park tomorrow against Vermont is free. It&#8217;s live on NESN and they&#8217;d like to Pack the Park to show Lowell&#8217;s enthusiasm. Gates open at 6pm for a 7 o&#8217;clock game and seating is first come first served. The Lowell Folk Festival begins at 6:15 Friday. It&#8217;s an amazing event &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/uncategorized\/free-spinners-game-thursday-folk-fest-friday-and-some-plumbing-advice\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free Spinners Game Thursday, Folk Fest Friday, and some Plumbing Advice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3958,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3956\/revisions\/3958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canalplaceone.com\/bulletinboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}