Temperature conoundrum from newbie, advice gratefully recieved!

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Hi everyone! Nice to meet you all

I would really like to get started on Kombucha but I have a bit of a problem.

Basically in our house it is only about 11 degrees celsius in the warmest part-

and I think it dips a lot lower at night.

Having read up about Kombucha, I suspect it won't grow at all in such

temperatures, and even if it did it wouldn't work very well.

I had wondered about a heating mat, but my flatmate isn't keen as we are worried

it will make for a huge electricity bill. She is getting a fishtank however,

which costs about a pound (2 dollars) a day to run. So if it didn't cost much

more than that I might be able to get away with it, since she has her fun and I

can have mine!

I am in the UK so it would be pretty impossible getting things from the US as

the postage is astronomical and I'm unemployed and on a really low budget.

Haas anyone experience of growing Kombucha successfully in a low temperature and

what did you do? We don't have any airing cupboards or warm rooms so we're

rather stuck at present!

Thank you very much for reading!

Joanna x