2nd year of our pool, an above ground 30', have had the pool open for about 8 days, all installed ok, and chemical levels are good. Have had a lot of debris that got in off our cover, and have been working at cleaning the past 5 days. Most of the time have been bypassing as waste since its leaves etc, finished cleaning 2 nights ago, went out yesterday morning to vacuum again, and the return hose, from skimmer to pump, kinks shut whenever we hook up the vacuum hose to the skimmer. Pull out the vacuum hose, and it filters just fine. Thought maybe our vacuum hose had a leak/hold in it, bought a smaller/cheap one, and it does the same thing.

I am at a total loss, my only thought is there is debris that is stuck in the skimmer to pump hose, yet I don't know why it would filter ok, and only do this when attempting to vacuum.

Thoughts?

thanks in advance -
Paul