I don’t have enough room

[Jchatton1]

I am adding a new pool heat pump to my existing setup. The pipe that has the flow meter is my return. The piece on the right that looks like it comes out of the heater is the elbow I need to connect to the short piece of horizontal pipe. What do you do when there isn’t enough room to add the last elbow? Is that when you have to go vertical up above both horizontal pipes to give you enough room?

 

[Rancho Cost-a-Lotta]

Did you already cement fittings to the heat pump? It would have been better to use a union so you could clock the 90° towards the other pipe.

 

[Jchatton1]

Did you already cement fittings to the heat pump? It would have been better to use a union so you could clock the 90° towards the other pipe.

No, everything is still loose. What about instead of everything at right angles, I turn the 2 elbows toward each other and angle the pipe diagonally, which removes one of the Elbows?