Recently moved in and am renting. Pool was in very bad shape and not used in a few seasons at least. Got everything up and running however the Skimmer Weir door is missing. I am not sure the make of the skimmer but had a hard time figuring out what Weir would work to replace it. I bought this to keep out large debris just for the meantime.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...ls_o04_s01_i04

I notice that I am not getting much of anything inside of my skimmer basket. I have to do a lot of Skimming manually instead. So I am starting to think that perhaps the door somehow draws the debris better. Just really want to know if the skimmer can function properly without the Weir in place. Whoever set up this pool also place the return jet relatively close to the Skimmer opening. I would say between 1-2 feet away and about 3 inches lower than the Skimmer unit itself. The jet is very strong and I am wondering if that may be causing the debris to get caught in the jet stream instead of getting sucked into the Skimmer.

Any info on this would be appreciated. I do not mind manually skimming but would be nice if some of the small stuff would at least go into the basket and save me some work. Look forward to replies, thanks!