If you are pulling water through the hose you have to use vacuum hose.
There are two types of hose , pressure and suction. Even a quality
pressure hose can collapse under suction. Home Depot has a lot of
tubing, just make sure it is good for suction lines. As prefilter gets
clogged the hose will collapse if it is not designed for the negative
pressure.
"*muffin*" wrote in message
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we are using regular swimming pool hose, the nonkink stuff,, but it
did
collapse at one point........
(using from prefilter to filter)


"Hank Pagel" wrote in message
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I'm pretty sure that above the ground pools use 1 1/4" hoses. If you
are using it for a suction line the vacuum hoses will not collapse.
Any discount pool supply or some home centers will have it. There
are
many grades and you get what you pay for.
"*muffin*" wrote in message
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do any of you have a place with good pricing on NON-kink tubing that
doesn't
collapse? 1 1/4 inch??