I don't have a Charmaster yet. I am going to up grade to a better furnace in the spring. I kinda like the Charmaster due to them being made 2 1/2 hours away from here. Just wanted to see how you liked it. If I end up getting one, would you be willing to share all your secrets?
I dont know what your set up is, basement ect, I mean where you furnace will be located. I could go on and on about wood furnaces. In short, I replaced a fire chief with the charmaster. I improved my duct work, supply and return, to great extent over the fire chief. Charmaster says that the ducting is very important. All in all the charmaster is a better furnace for my situation. They come with a 2600 CFM blower and being as my furnace is in the garage and the heated air has a way to travel, the big blower helps. As I have stated before, I wish I had gone with a boiler and a heat exchanger in the main gas furnace plenum. The Charmaster has two dampers one factory installed the other you put in the smoke pipe, so there is alot of #### to play with, and it takes a bit to learn how to make it run the best. Ita good quality item and the people at charmaster have been helpfull. Do go with the domestic hot water coil, that works really good. I found out that US Stoves has come out with a EPA rated wood furnace, so I would check those out. Charmaster says that there stoves will use half the wood of others. BULLS__T. Also they say that they produce less creosote. They wont, but you have to run em hot hot hot . It will run you out unless its below 30 degrees. Ive been farting arounf with mine now for 4 months and just when I think I got everything figured out, it throws me a new curve ball. Farmer mike has had one for 20 myears and he speakes highly of his, and I guess I like mine to, if you have any question when its up and going feel free to call. 517 404 7824, see ya.