Please HELP, 1000w mh fixture and too much heat, help with heat

Hello, I currently have a 1000w mh setup and it is putting my entire room at over 100 degrees. It is burning hot in there and I had to cut it off because it was heating up the wood above it up so much I thought it would start a fire. I need help because it is not my house and I cant afford for it to burn down. The owner already thinks that I have invested too much money in this but I was thinking to add ventilation and he just refuses that it would be worth it since we have put so much work into it already. Is there a simple solution to cooling down the room without having to cut into walls and spend more money on fans, duct work, and more electric cost to run those fans. Please help me, I am trying to contact the guy I bought the light from on ebay to see if I can replace this 1000w with a lower wattage like 600w or 400w but would those bulbs be cooler? The owner of the place wants to put a bunch of flouros but I know that the mh and hps I have would be better. What should i do???
 

gobbly

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You have two options. Increase ventilation (which you should have anyway if you aren't injecting CO2) or buy an air conditioner (which will still likely need to vent the compressor or connect to a water supply and drain).

It all depends on where your grow is, but anything with attic access is easy. Calculate the needed CFM which will dictate your duct size. Cut a hole and run ducting down. Connect to an inline fan. Cut an intake, cover it with some sort of vent grate. Could get significantly more complicated though depending on where your grow room is.

You want to stick with the HID. You could go to a lower wattage, but it sounds like you really need to address the ventilation issue. Proper ventilation is typically a requirement to grow if you aren't using CO2.
 
could someone post a picture i believe i will have same problem when i get my lights. ventalation onlything stressin me right now haha
 
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