The owner may later decide to make additions to the house whenever he has enough money to pay for building materials and labour. The additions for the Terengganu house, the kitchen and the middle house ( rumah tengah ) had previously been moved to another location in the village of Pulau Rusa where they are still in use.
The house is built entirely from chengal, one of the best hardwoods which is durable even without treatment. The roof of this house is made of clay tiles known as singgora, named after a town in Southern Thailand.
Clay tiles allow for rainwater to be absorbed, thus cooling the inside of the house when the weather is hot. In the cooking area, the inside of the roof is usually covered with soot. It ie believed that the tiles can be made stronger by the constant burning.
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