Piping question

aldefed

Hello,
Currently, my secondary circulator pump feeds four branches that go to my radiant manifolds. I want to break this into 2 zones with zone valves (2 branches on each zone valve). What is the best way to "Tee" the outlet of the circulator pump into the 2 zone valves? The circulator pump is oriented vertically and I would like the zone valves to be vertical directly above the pump. Pumping into the bull of the Tee would be easy but I didn't think it was proper to do that.
Thanks,
Al

hot_rod

like this?

aldefed

That is what I was thinking but just wanted to be sure. I'm just curious, what is the actual difference between your drawing and rotating the Tee 90 degrees?

hot_rod

This is considered bull heading, not ideal for flow. The flow doesn't always split evenly. Someone mentioned it is prohibited in some codebooks now?