CSLB Law & Business + 6 trade guides + Cheat Sheet bundle

CSLB Law & Business — Complete Study Guide (2026)

Since January 1, 2025 the California license-free job limit is $1,000, not $500 (B&P §7048, AB 2622). This book is written to the rest of current law the same way: the $25,000 bond, the 2026 fee table, the July 2026 penalty ranges, and CSLB's January 1, 2027 deadline to verify workers'-comp exemptions. All 7 exam sections, plus a 115-question practice exam timed to CSLB's published 3½ hours, with answers at the back. PDF + EPUB.

CSLB Class B General Building — Trade Exam Study Guide (2026)

Written to the 2025 California codes in force since January 1, 2026 — guards are now CRC R321, stairs R318.7 — and to Cal/OSHA's 6-foot residential framing fall-protection rule, operative July 1, 2025. The CSLB Class B General Building trade exam (the craft half, separate from Law & Business): planning & estimating, framing & structural, core trades, finish trades and safety, with 64 worked examples, a 130-question mixed practice exam to sit in CSLB's 3½ hours, and 270 more questions in five chapter practice sets — 400 in all, weighted to CSLB's published section weights. Follows CSLB's General Building (B) study guide, form 13E-B (03-2026). Exam review for working builders, not a first introduction: CSLB requires documented journey-level experience before you can sit the exam, and the book assumes that background. Appendix B flags every figure that can change with the code edition or local amendment. AI-assisted study aid. PDF + EPUB.

CSLB Class C-10 Electrical — Trade Exam Study Guide (2026)

This guide follows the five sections CSLB publishes for the C-10 Electrical trade exam, in CSLB’s order and at CSLB’s approximate weights (28 / 27 / 11 / 16 / 18 percent). Each chapter teaches the reasoning, then works the numbers — Ohm’s law, three-phase current, voltage drop, dwelling loads — and names the traps. It teaches how to use the code tables and does not reprint them. 224 pages, 240 original practice questions, and an answer key. Code section numbers are edition-sensitive; verify against the California Electrical Code your jurisdiction enforces. PDF + EPUB.

CSLB C-20 HVAC Trade Exam Study Guide (2026)

This guide follows the four content areas CSLB publishes for the C-20 HVAC trade exam, in CSLB’s order and at its approximate weights (22 / 38 / 20 / 20 percent): load and duct design and estimating; fabrication, installation and startup; troubleshooting, repair and maintenance; and safety. Chapters cover Manual J and S, psychrometrics, duct sizing, refrigeration and superheat, electrical controls, refrigerant rules and the contractor law. Figures that change with each code cycle are flagged rather than stated as permanent. 284 pages, 200 original practice questions, and an answer key. PDF + EPUB.

CSLB C-27 Landscaping Trade Exam Study Guide (2026)

This guide has one chapter for each of the six sections CSLB publishes for the C-27 Landscaping trade exam, in CSLB’s order and at its approximate weights (18 / 12 / 21 / 21 / 11 / 17 percent). It teaches the scope line between landscaping and other licenses, backflow protection by hazard, MWELO water budgets, grading and trenching, and Title 8 safety, with worked examples and exam traps in every chapter. 228 pages, 200 original practice questions, and an answer key whose explanations often also say why the common wrong choices fail. PDF + EPUB.

CSLB C-33 Painting Trade Exam Study Guide (2026)

This guide follows the four sections CSLB publishes for the C-33 Painting and Decorating trade exam, in CSLB’s order and at its approximate weights (28 / 30 / 21 / 21 percent). It teaches the job from the walk-through and estimate through diagnosing and preparing the substrate to application, and gives hazardous materials — EPA RRP and Cal/OSHA lead, silica, asbestos, respirators — a full chapter. 294 pages, 200 original practice questions, and an answer key. PDF + EPUB.

CSLB Class C-36 Plumbing — Trade Exam Study Guide (2026)

This guide follows the five sections CSLB publishes for the C-36 Plumbing trade exam, in CSLB’s order and at its approximate weights (22 / 22 / 20 / 19 / 17 percent). It works the water-supply, drainage and vent sizing, fuel gas, testing, fixtures, water heaters and cross-connection rules against the 2025 California Plumbing Code, with a worked example, a traps list and a key-numbers box in every chapter. 277 pages, 200 original practice questions, and an answer key. Code numbers are edition-sensitive; verify against the CPC your jurisdiction enforces. PDF + EPUB.

CSLB Law & Business — Cheat Sheet (2026)

A printable colour cheat sheet for the CSLB Law & Business exam, laid out for US Letter and meant to be printed double-sided. It pulls the exam's format, scoring and content areas, and the figures and rules it turns on, onto dense colour-coded pages. Each figure was checked against the source it cites, and the check date is printed on the sheet (October 2026). An independent study aid, not affiliated with or endorsed by the body that sets the exam. The rules an exam tests can change: confirm against the owner's current documents before you rely on a figure.