Someone from Wisconsin complaining about NJ being "fascist"? Give me a break! Let's leave politics to political forums and not bring it to our pool forum so we can all stay friends!

In many towns in NJ, many inspectors may well be corrupt, and you need to play the game their way. In my town, luckily (for homeowners, not builders) they are very, very tough and most are very, very honest. But, you again need to play the game THEIR way! And a good thing, too, because I've had the inspector find all kinds of cheats by certain, never-to-be-used-again contractors! Further, when houses are fairly close together, a code violation can affect your neighbors as well. We are the densest-populated state in the nation, having beaten out Delaware some years ago, so I, for one, have NO problem with robust, strong building codes.

Pools and electricity are fundamentally a dangerous combination. That's why I won't use anything but 12volt lighting near the pool, and the pump is, by code, on a GFCI circuit breaker. Remember when, in the pool at his home in Panama, the great Yankee closer, Mariano Rivera, lost a couple of relatives to electrocution?