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Hey I'm an electrician, Your going to need to run new wire to be exact you'll be running 12-2 NM Sheathed Wire. On a washer/dryer setup the 240 is a dedicated circut, it has it's own braker, by the NEC ( National Electricians Code ) you must have it on it's on circut and breaker for fire safty reasons. Without some knowledge on wireing houses I recomend you hire a electrician to bust that one out. Little word of advice, most electricians smoke shit loads of pot, just gotta find the right one!

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It's National Electrical Code not National Electricians code (we engineers have to follow it too!).

It's size 10 wire (might actually be size 8 wire) not #12 (Hint: the plug says 30 amps and under the NEC that requires a minimum of #10). You do not need to run a new NM wire, only a ground wire (permmisable under Sec 250 of the NEC however state and local codes could be different).



It could actually be the case that the ground wire is shoved up inside the wall and the pot smoking residential electrician was just being a lazy bastard by not hooking it up.
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I am an electrician. From what I see it looks fine and safe. It appears to me there is ground wired pulled from the main panel to this box. The green wire is screwed the box instead of to the outlet. This is perfectly fine and meets code where I live in NY. When you screw the 240 receptacle into the box.....it is now grounded by the same green wire that is screwed into the box. It is difficult to see from the picture if the green wire is just sitting in there or it is scewed in. Just make sure that green wire is screwed into the box. If it isn't you can pick up a ground wire and screw at home depot for about 20 cents.
I dont see a green wire in there and it looks like it may be a plastic box,not sure.trent wheres that panel at,if its close you could easily do this job your self. It used to be up to code but new code needs to be four wire and four prong outlet instead of three red,black,white and green........Jmac
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ehhh that's a jam...

and yea I worked doing restoration on fire and water damaged homes, and our electrician smoked down with us. However not everyone does so IDK about that kinda 50/50 there.
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its a thing with construction. about 3/4 of construction workers burn down. I know because ive been in the field and i have family still in the field that dont smoke. it annoys them when fellow workers ask them if they wanna spark up. lol, i told em their in the wrong field of work for a non-toker. lol
 
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