So the intex garden hose vacuum doesn't work very well. It can be a lot better and pumps 1000 but preferably 1500gph or more can vacuum a pool pretty well. The vacuum head intex sends for the garden hose is not that bad for a small pool but it needs to be connected to the pump not the garden hose. Most of us that buy an intex also purchase a larger pump and by the time everything is together and running we have a lot of left over pieces and left over hoses. I ended up with these adapters left over.
I stripped the rubber sleeve and the nut off of it.
Next I cut out a section of the rubber sleeve and stretched it over the end of the adapter. It's not easy. Sorry bout the picture quality.
Then I shoved (really hard) the adapter into the vac head. Finish up by shoving (kind of hard) an extra hose into the adapter.
Tada!
I have hoses from last years small blue blob pool, hoses that came with the pump that came with this pool, extra hoses from the salt generator filter package and the hose that connects to the skimmer. I simply shoved each section of hose into another and gave each joint a few wraps with vinyl tape but I think they would stay together just fine without it. It's enough hose to reach the farthest part of the pool.
To vacuum to filter I simply use the included skimmer fitting
A problem arose in that the water inlet has a grill over it and leaves and debris would clog it up very quickly. solution was use the leaf skimmer before vacuuming to remove all but the smallest pieces of leaves and to remove the grill. I couldn't figure out a good way to do it underwater. My dremmel tool probably wouldn't like being submerged and I was afraid to use any kind of saw so I ended up simply breaking each little vane off of the grill with a needle nose pliers. It's not a neat job and I'm not proud of my craftsmanship but it works.
I drilled a bunch of holes into this extra cover and use it to safely cover the hole whenever the skimmer spear is not installed.
It all works very well and it only cost a little vinyl tape and a couple of hours. I vacuum about once a week and am delighted every time with how well the intex vac head now cleans the pool.