I just purchased a vacuum head with a 1.5 inch vacuum hose so I can manually vacuum my pool. I tried using one of those vacuum plates over my skimmer basket and got no suction doing this. My suspicion is the vacuum plate does not create a good seal against the basket. This seems to me to be a poorly designed concept. The next thing I tried was removing the skimmer basket and float valve and stuck the 1.5 inch hose directly into the skimmer intake port. The port completely swallowed my hose but I got plenty of suction for the vacuum. I had a difficult time pulling the hose out of the intake port when I was finished vacuuming my pool. The inside diameter of the suction port is 2 1/4 inches and the outside diameter of my skimmer hose is about 1 3/8 inches. I also noticed there are female threads on the skimmer intake port. I tried to search for an adapter online that will adapt my suction hose to the intake port of the skimmer but had no luck. Does such and adapter exist? Is there any other way to solve this problem. I am worried the sleeve on the end of my hose could come off and get stuck inside the plumbing. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
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