Water System

Did you know how water can distribute to all of your house side? There is a water system that have been made by the people when their built their house. This system is part of meters of pipes. First, water from PDAM or pump flow to the main pipe. In this pipe, water is pumped to the all of the floor in the house, like toilet, wash basin, bath, sink, and others. After that, some are storage in the cold water tank. People usually put this tank on the roof. Then, if people need hot water, from the cold one it flow to the hot water tank. Lastly, we can use the hot water, after it is pumped to all hot water pipes in the house.


"Rumah Gadang"

Rumah gadang has unique parts that make it special as a traditional house from West Sumatra. It seem to be different with other traditional houses. Rumah gadang has curved roof like a buffaloe's horn. It's body's shape same like a ship. It's floor made 2 meters high from the ground. Rumah gadang also has other unique, it has many different name. People name it based on the number of room in front to back side. It can be named as "Lipek Pandan", "Balah Bubuang", and "Gajah Maharam". And then last speciality from Rumah Gadang is there are many circumstances did by the people before and when their built Rumah Gadang. "Mufakat Awal" and "Maelo Kayu" are what people do before their built the house. "Mancatak Tiang Tuo", "Batagak Tiang", and "Manaikan Kudo-kudo" are did when people built it.