Main Street San Andreas, around the historic courthouse and the Calaveras County Museum, is a well-preserved Gold Rush streetscape, and the houses on the side streets behind it are of the same vintage. Wood-frame homes from the 1850s to the early 1900s sit on stone footings with additions grafted on over a century, and their floors have settled toward the creek. A crawlspace check, leveling where it counts, and a floor that floats or flexes are the right approach.
The larger share of San Andreas homes sits farther out along Gold Strike Road, Mountain Ranch Road and the county roads toward Mokelumne Hill. Built between the 1970s and the 1990s on acreage, on raised wood floors or slabs, they have big living rooms, wood stoves and long hallways. One plank product through the main rooms, with carpet kept for the bedrooms, suits them.
Manufactured homes on land are part of the housing around San Andreas as well. Their subfloors, narrower doorways and transitions differ from a stick-built house, which is why the product decision gets made at the measure, with a floating luxury vinyl plank or laminate often the best fit.