Moving the old homestead?

There's a two-room building on our "new" property (next door to where we currently live; where we'll build our house). It's 4.3m x 7.3m, and has sentimental value to The Lady, as it's the cabin where her parents lived for the first few years of marriage, while their current home was being built across the road.

However, it's right-smack where we want to build.

Phoned a house-moving company to get a ballpark estimate on moving it about 15m back. In round terms, AU$3,000 to move it, plus around AU$200 per concrete stump to re-stump it; 15 stumps, so another AU$3,000. ("Stumps" = short pilings; these will be about 50cm tall.)

So, roughly AU$6,000, all-said. We'll see how that weighs up against sentimentality.

If we moved it, it would -- at least short-term, be a woodshop, garden tool storage, and potting shed.


--GG