Mosgiel Memorial RSA community club manager Gary Dalton said the club recently had its building assessed because it wanted to start commercially using a function room upstairs and knew the floor needed strengthening.
Through the exercise, it learned that to bring the building up to code, up to $200,000 would have to be spent on strengthening.
Mr Dalton emphasised the building was safe in the meantime.
The club has been raising money for more than three years to do a complete refurbishment of its ageing buildings, which include a bar, a restaurant, a pool room, meeting hall and library.
It had aimed to raise about $900,000 for the project.
Mr Dalton said so far about $750,000 had been raised, including $91,925 granted by the Government last week to establish a World War 1 commemorative library and museum at the clubrooms.
It now needed to decide whether it was going to scale back the refurbishment project, or continue to raise more funds.
The club's building committee would hold a meeting with an architect this month, to see where to go from here.
Priorities would be the strengthening, so the club could get the upstairs function room bringing in some income, and rebuilding the library/museum, since the club had specifically been granted money for that project.
Mr Dalton, who was operations manager for Credit Union South until he began work for the RSA six weeks ago, said the refurbishment was not a project for which the club wanted to borrow money.
''We are very conscious of living within the funding received,'' Mr Dalton said.
RSA president Sandy Trainor said the earthquake proofing had been an unexpected contingency, but it was one with which the club was realistic about dealing.
