Fireplace brick getting warm above insert

[wallpaper79]

Just wondering if other insert owners find that the fireplace brick above the insert gets warm after extended burns.

 

[DAKSY]

Yep. I bet it got warm if ya burned enuff firewood when it was an open fireplace, too.
Adds to the radiant heat given off & takes a long time to cool.
If you can touch it & not come away with a blister on your skin, there's probably nothing to worry about...
If it's hot enuff that you DO lose skin, STOP BURNING IT!
There is something terribly wrong with your set-up that needs to be corrected ASAP.

 

[Dix]

Yes, and the hearth area infront of it too.

It's not raging hot, just warm.

 

[Hogwildz]

Yeap, completely normal, thing of it as free heating of thermal mass, to be reintroduced to the room as the stove cools.
Like a mini masonry heater.

 

[BrotherBart]

The first course of bricks over my stove inserted into the fireplace sits at around 235 degrees most of the time when the stove is cruising.

 

[JMF1]

I did my fireplace with real whole fieldstones and boy does that hold/radiate the heat!

 

[wallpaper79]

Thanks for all your replies. That makes me feel a whole lot better.

 

[Tudorman]

The stone and brick between the insert and the mantel shelf gets yummy warm. The wood paneling above the mantel shelf gets warm to the touch.