The 1 Package: All-Inclusive Arizona Swimming Pools, Including Solar Dual Residential / Commercial Contractor (KA-6) Exam, Licensing & Business Setup Solution

Prepare for the Arizona Swimming Pools, Including Solar Dual Residential / Commercial Contractor KA-6 exam while building the licensing and business foundation needed to operate professionally. The 1 Package combines swimming pool and solar exam preparation, construction reference books, contractor application assistance, business formation, EIN filing, and contractor compliance guidance in one coordinated solution.

This all-inclusive Arizona KA-6 contractor package is designed for experienced swimming pool builders, pool renovation professionals, concrete specialists, reinforcing-steel installers, excavation contractors, project supervisors, qualifying parties, and business owners pursuing residential and commercial swimming pool authority that includes qualifying solar pool-heating work.

The KA-6 classification combines the scope permitted by Arizona’s commercial A-19 Swimming Pools, Including Solar classification and residential B-6 General Swimming Pool Contractor, Including Solar classification. Candidates preparing for this dual license should develop broad knowledge of pool construction, structural shells, excavation, concrete, shotcrete, reinforcing steel, circulation systems, pool equipment, solar heating components, building-code requirements, and construction safety.

Swimming pool construction brings multiple phases of work together. A project may involve site evaluation, layout, excavation, grading, reinforcing steel, concrete or shotcrete placement, plumbing coordination, equipment installation, decking, barriers, water treatment, solar heating, system startup, testing, and inspections. Contractors must understand how each phase affects the finished pool and how to coordinate work performed by specialty trades.

The preparation program uses the 2018 International Building Code, the 2018 International Residential Code, OSHA construction standards, concrete-mixture guidance, reinforcing-bar information, shotcrete practices, and pool-operation principles. These materials support study across residential and commercial pool construction subjects while helping candidates develop efficient reference-navigation habits.

The package includes 1 year of course access, allowing candidates to prepare around employment, active pool projects, service schedules, and personal responsibilities. The course supports organized trade review, code navigation, construction calculations, practice-oriented preparation, and confidence-building study.

The 1 Package also supports the licensing and business stages that follow exam preparation. Application Service helps organize the Arizona contractor licensing process. Business Formation establishes an LLC or corporation, EIN Filing supports banking and tax administration, and Contractor Compliance Guidance helps customers understand responsibilities associated with operating an Arizona residential and commercial swimming pool business.

Exam Details

The Arizona Registrar of Contractors licenses residential, commercial, and dual contractors throughout the state. The KA-6 classification combines the work permitted under the commercial A-19 Swimming Pools, Including Solar classification and the residential B-6 General Swimming Pool Contractor, Including Solar classification.

The qualifying party is the individual whose experience, knowledge, and examination qualifications support the contractor license. This person must satisfy the applicable Arizona requirements and remain associated with the licensed business in the qualifying capacity recognized by the state.

The KA-6 examination path covers broad knowledge associated with residential and commercial swimming pool construction, including work connected with qualifying solar systems. Preparation may involve excavation, grading, structural shells, reinforcing steel, concrete, shotcrete, circulation, equipment, barriers, code requirements, construction safety, estimating, and project coordination.

Excavation preparation may include site layout, elevations, access, soil conditions, equipment selection, trenching, underground utilities, spoil removal, drainage, and safe excavation procedures. Candidates should understand how excavation accuracy affects the pool shell, plumbing layout, deck elevations, and finished dimensions.

Reinforcing-steel preparation may include bar identification, placement, spacing, supports, ties, laps, cover, bond beams, walls, floors, steps, benches, penetrations, and coordination with embedded components. Reinforcement must remain correctly positioned during concrete or shotcrete placement.

Concrete preparation may involve cement, aggregates, water, admixtures, mixture proportioning, placement, consolidation, curing, strength, durability, cracking, and quality control. Pool shells are exposed to water pressure, soil pressure, temperature changes, chemicals, and long-term service conditions, making proper concrete practice essential.

Shotcrete preparation may include dry-mix and wet-mix processes, equipment, surface preparation, reinforcing-steel encasement, nozzle operation, placement sequence, thickness, rebound, finishing, curing, inspection, and testing. Candidates should understand how application methods influence the quality and durability of the completed pool shell.

Pool-system preparation may include drains, skimmers, return fittings, pumps, filters, valves, circulation piping, equipment pads, testing, and startup. Candidates should understand the purpose of each component and how proper flow supports filtration, sanitation, and water quality.

Solar preparation may include solar pool-heating principles, collector placement, circulation, valves, piping, bypass arrangements, sensors, controls, system integration, roof or rack coordination, freeze protection, maintenance, and operational considerations.

Pool-operation study may include circulation, filtration, disinfection, water balance, testing, maintenance, and safe operating practices. Although the KA-6 classification focuses on construction, understanding pool operation helps contractors evaluate whether installed systems are capable of functioning as intended.

Building-code preparation may involve structural provisions, barriers, accessibility, safety glazing, residential conditions, commercial building requirements, equipment locations, and coordination with local permitting and inspection requirements.

Passing the required examination components does not automatically issue the KA-6 contractor license. The Arizona Registrar of Contractors must review and approve the complete application before the business may perform regulated work under the classification.

Open Book Test

The Arizona KA-6 swimming pool contractor examination path uses approved reference materials under the current PSI testing rules. Candidates may consult permitted books during the applicable examination, subject to requirements involving editions, highlighting, annotations, permanent tabs, attachments, and book inspection.

An open-book format does not eliminate the need for trade knowledge. Candidates must identify the subject of each question, select the appropriate reference, locate the relevant information, interpret technical requirements, and apply the information to the pool-construction or solar condition presented.

All books are highlighted and Tabbed. Highlighting draws attention to useful safety rules, code requirements, concrete information, reinforcing-steel procedures, shotcrete methods, pool-operation concepts, tables, and construction details. Tabs support faster movement between major chapters and frequently researched topics.

The prepared references should be used throughout the course. Repeated navigation practice helps candidates become familiar with indexes, chapter organization, diagrams, tables, code sections, and permanent tab locations before examination day.

A question involving excavation safety, personal protective equipment, tools, equipment, fall protection, or concrete work may require the OSHA reference. Commercial building questions may involve the International Building Code, while residential pool conditions may involve the International Residential Code.

Questions involving concrete materials, proportions, curing, durability, or quality control may be supported by Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures. Reinforcing-steel questions may involve Placing Reinforcing Bars, while shell-placement questions may involve the Guide to Shotcrete.

Questions involving circulation, filtration, water treatment, testing, or operating practices may be supported by the Pool and Spa Operator Handbook. Candidates should practice distinguishing among code, safety, concrete, reinforcement, shotcrete, and pool-operation topics.

All references remain subject to inspection by the examination provider. Loose pages, temporary tabs, removable notes, unauthorized attachments, and electronic materials should not be added to the books.

Licensing Steps

1. Confirm the KA-6 classification. Review the dual residential and commercial swimming pool scope, including qualifying solar work, to make sure it matches the services the business intends to offer.
2. Select the qualifying party. Identify the individual who will satisfy the applicable swimming pool construction experience and examination requirements.
3. Review the required examinations. Determine which trade, solar, and Arizona Statutes and Rules requirements apply to the proposed qualifying party.
4. Prepare for the examination process. Use the included course, highlighted and tabbed books, technical review, calculations, and practice-oriented study materials.
5. Complete the required examination components. Pass the applicable trade and solar requirements and complete Arizona’s Statutes and Rules requirement unless an authorized waiver applies.
6. Form the business entity. Use the included Business Formation service to establish an LLC or corporation for the swimming pool contracting business.
7. Obtain an EIN. Complete the included EIN Filing with the IRS for business banking, tax administration, payroll, employee hiring, and professional operations.
8. Complete applicable background requirements. Follow Arizona’s process for the individuals required to appear on the contractor license application.
9. Prepare solar-related documentation. Include the solar documentation required for a classification containing a solar component.
10. Prepare the contractor application. Organize qualifying-party records, experience documentation, examination information, business records, and required disclosures.
11. Obtain the contractor license bond. Arrange the bond required for the dual classification and anticipated annual gross volume of work.
12. Address residential financial protection. Complete the applicable Residential Contractors’ Recovery Fund requirement or authorized alternative.
13. Submit the application. Provide the completed license application and supporting documents to the Arizona Registrar of Contractors.
14. Wait for license issuance. Do not advertise, bid, contract for, or perform work requiring the KA-6 license until Arizona approves the application and issues an active contractor license.

State Requirements

The KA-6 classification is an Arizona dual swimming pool contractor license that includes qualifying solar work. It combines the scope of the commercial A-19 Swimming Pools, Including Solar classification and the residential B-6 General Swimming Pool Contractor, Including Solar classification.

The proposed qualifying party must demonstrate the experience, knowledge, and skills necessary to supervise or perform the work covered by the license. Experience documentation may need to describe excavation, pool shells, reinforcing steel, concrete, shotcrete, circulation piping, equipment, solar pool heating, residential projects, commercial projects, and field supervision.

The legal business entity applying for the license must be properly established and identified. The company name, ownership information, qualifying-party records, EIN documentation, contractor bond, and license application should remain consistent throughout the process.

Arizona contractor applicants must complete applicable background requirements and provide the identification, experience, examination, business, and disclosure information required for state review.

Because KA-6 includes solar authority, the application process includes documentation associated with the solar component. This requirement is separate from the trade examination and should be included with the complete licensing file.

A contractor license bond is required. Dual license bond amounts are calculated by combining the residential and commercial bond requirements applicable to the classification and anticipated gross volume of work.

The residential portion of the KA-6 classification is also subject to Arizona’s residential financial-protection requirements. The applicant must satisfy the applicable Residential Contractors’ Recovery Fund obligation or authorized alternative.

Passing the required examination components is one part of the licensing process. It does not authorize a person or business to advertise, bid, contract for, or perform regulated swimming pool work before the active Arizona license is issued.

After licensing, the contractor must operate within the authorized KA-6 scope, maintain the required bond, renew the license, and keep business and qualifying-party information current. Changes involving ownership, legal structure, address, bond, or qualifying party may require additional filings.

Reference Books

• Included Book: Code of Federal Regulations – 29 CFR Part 1926 (OSHA)
  This construction-safety reference covers excavations, personal protective equipment, ladders, electrical hazards, tools, concrete work, material handling, fall protection, equipment, and general jobsite responsibilities.
• Included Book: International Building Code, 2018
  This code supports study of commercial building requirements involving structural systems, loads, concrete, accessibility, barriers, safety, inspections, and general code compliance.
• Included Book: International Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings, 2018
  This residential code addresses structural conditions, barriers, safety provisions, materials, residential building requirements, and pool-related conditions affecting one- and two-family dwellings.
• Included Book: Pool and Spa Operator Handbook
  This reference supports study of circulation, filtration, water balance, sanitizing, disinfection, testing, maintenance, equipment, startup, and safe pool-operation practices.
• Included Book: Design and Control of Concrete Mixtures, 17th Edition
  This technical reference covers concrete ingredients, mixture proportioning, mixing, placement, consolidation, curing, strength, durability, testing, and quality-control principles.
• Included Book: Placing Reinforcing Bars
  This trade reference supports study of reinforcing-bar identification, storage, placement, supports, ties, spacing, splices, concrete cover, tolerances, and field installation practices.
• Included Book: Guide to Shotcrete, 2016 or 2022
  This guide addresses shotcrete materials, equipment, reinforcement, surface preparation, placement, nozzle operation, rebound, finishing, curing, quality, testing, and inspection.

All books are highlighted and Tabbed. The prepared format supports organized study and faster navigation through the swimming pool, concrete, shotcrete, reinforcing-steel, building-code, residential-code, operations, and safety material.

Candidates should work with the books throughout the course so they become familiar with major chapters, diagrams, tables, technical procedures, code provisions, and permanent tab locations.

The package includes a $650 refundable book deposit. The deposit is refundable when the books are returned within one year in similar condition.

Please allow up to 15 business days for The 1 Package book orders.

Test Information and Study Materials

Effective KA-6 preparation should combine swimming pool construction knowledge, solar pool-heating concepts, code navigation, excavation, reinforcing steel, concrete, shotcrete, circulation systems, estimating, calculations, and OSHA safety.

Pool-layout study may include property conditions, elevations, setbacks, access, shell dimensions, deck elevations, equipment locations, drainage, and coordination with plans or permits.

Concrete and shotcrete preparation may involve mixture design, reinforcement encasement, placement sequence, thickness, rebound, finishing, curing, cracking, strength, testing, and quality control.

Reinforcing-steel study may include bar sizes, placement drawings, supports, ties, laps, spacing, concrete cover, bond beams, walls, floors, steps, benches, penetrations, and maintaining steel position during shell placement.

Pool-system study may include main drains, skimmers, returns, pumps, filters, piping, valves, circulation, water treatment, pressure testing, and equipment startup. Candidates should understand how hydraulic flow and component placement affect system performance.

Solar preparation may involve collector orientation, available exposure, circulation pathways, piping, valves, bypass arrangements, temperature sensors, controls, system integration, equipment protection, and maintenance access.

Pool-operation study may involve circulation rates, filtration, sanitizing, water balance, testing, contamination control, maintenance, and operating safety. Understanding system operation supports better construction and startup decisions.

Estimating practice may include excavation quantities, concrete or shotcrete volume, reinforcing steel, piping, fittings, pool surface area, deck area, material waste, equipment quantities, and labor planning.

Safety preparation should address excavation hazards, construction equipment, wet work areas, electrical exposure, reinforcing steel, concrete placement, ladders, roof access for solar components, lifting, personal protective equipment, and jobsite housekeeping.

How 1 Exam Prep Helps You Reach Your Goal

1 Exam Prep supports Arizona KA-6 candidates through organized study guidance, trade-focused review, practice-oriented preparation, reference navigation, and confidence-building study structure.

The course divides swimming pool and solar preparation into manageable subjects, including excavation, reinforcing steel, concrete, shotcrete, circulation, equipment, water treatment, building codes, residential codes, solar systems, estimating, and OSHA safety.

Practice-oriented preparation helps candidates apply technical information rather than relying only on reading. Reference-navigation exercises support faster identification of the correct code, construction manual, chapter, table, diagram, or safety requirement.

The highlighted and tabbed books support efficient navigation, but regular use remains essential. Repeated practice helps candidates become familiar with each reference and reduces unnecessary searching during the examination.

Application Service supports the Arizona licensing stage by helping organize qualifying-party information, examination records, business documents, and required application materials. Business Formation establishes an LLC or corporation so the customer has a legally structured business entity.

EIN Filing with the IRS provides the federal identification number used to open business bank accounts, manage taxes properly, hire employees, and operate the pool contracting business professionally. Contractor Compliance Guidance supports a clearer understanding of responsibilities associated with maintaining an Arizona residential and commercial contractor license.

No preparation program or business service can guarantee an examination result, licensing approval, earnings, or business success. The package provides the books, course access, application assistance, and business setup services needed to pursue the Arizona KA-6 licensing path with stronger organization and confidence.

What is included in The 1 Package?

The package includes seven swimming pool, concrete, shotcrete, reinforcing-steel, code, operations, and safety references, 1 year of course access, Application Service, LLC or corporation formation, EIN Filing with the IRS, and Contractor Compliance Guidance.

What is the total cost?

The package cost is $2,665. A $650 refundable book deposit brings the total due to $3,315. The package is all-inclusive with no hidden fees.

How does the refundable book deposit work?

The $650 deposit is refundable when the books are returned within one year in similar condition.

Are all books highlighted and tabbed?

Yes. All books are highlighted and Tabbed to support organized study and faster reference navigation.

How long should I allow for the book order?

Please allow up to 15 business days for The 1 Package book orders.

Is the Arizona KA-6 examination open book?

Yes. The KA-6 examination path uses approved references under PSI’s current open-book testing rules.

Does KA-6 cover residential and commercial swimming pools?

Yes. KA-6 combines the authorized commercial A-19 and residential B-6 Swimming Pools, Including Solar scopes.

Does the classification include solar pool-heating work?

Yes. The KA-6 classification includes qualifying solar work within the residential and commercial swimming pool scope.

What subjects are included in the preparation program?

The program covers excavation, reinforcing steel, concrete, shotcrete, circulation systems, pool equipment, water treatment, building codes, residential codes, solar concepts, estimating, and OSHA safety.

Does the package include licensing and business setup?

Yes. The package includes Application Service, LLC or corporation formation, EIN Filing with the IRS, and Contractor Compliance Guidance.

Does passing the examination automatically issue the license?

No. The Arizona Registrar of Contractors must review and approve the complete application before issuing the KA-6 contractor license.