Hi Carl, That's an epic rebuild of your pool, good job!
I see why you wouldn't want to touch the heating system, best left well alone as it's looks quite a tasks. Glad it works so well and I had often wondered if the decking could be used, that's the first one of it's type I have seen. Now getting me thinking about using reconstituted plastic decking to do a similar thing. (project for the winter maybe?)

If I haven't read to deeply into this, I think I understand why you feel protective towards the forum after such a great rebuild and thread why wouldn't you. Thank you for the link to Ben's other site, Great reading and I agree so much with what he wrote and practice a lot of it already without knowing of it's existence, just from being around a while and seeing what worked and what generally doesn't and the pool industry are way over time for new lesson in how to do it more effectively.

Thanks for sharing that.
John