Moved into our new build home over the weekend and found out that our dryer keeps tripping the breaker. Called the construction manager who sent out an electrician today. They're telling me that my 2020 LG dryer is now too old?! They say the wiring isn't done correctly on my dryer (that worked perfectly in my 2020 home). Something about these dryers working on any home prior to 2021 but there's a new code that came in last year where the dryer breakers now have to be GFCI protected. Anybody have any knowledge on this? Would calling LG customer service and having the dryer "serviced"/"re-wired" a worthwhile option? I would really like to not have to buy a new dryer...

edit: I misunderstood. You'll have to replace the GFCI breaker with a non-GFCI breaker.

Or call LG and see if it's ok to remove the bond between the neutral and ground.

I'm a builder and we have started running into this with the code change that made us install GFCI breaker for the dryer.
The fix is to remove the ground to neutral jumper at the dryers wiring junction box.

This is going to be even more interesting in a few years since now theyre wanting all high voltage breakers to have GFCI resets. There's going to be lots of fridges losing power and defrosting.

UnderoosAg said:

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^^ what he said. I'm all for safety but the expansion of GFCI and AFCI requirements seem like solutions in search of problems. The unintended consequences are often causing more harm than good. making breaker manufacturers rich.

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Thing is, they can't sell what they don't have. A couple of manufacturers are back ordered into the thousands on GFCI breakers. It's also playing hell with commercial kitchens.

Will doing this void any warranty I have with the builder?

(Not an electrician and I'm not even going to pretend I entirely understand this. But my dad is coming over the weekend to help me figure this out so thank you all for the info)

You're not messing with the builders wiring, just the dryer. If you do some googling, Im sure you can find more info on this. I've had to do it for several buyers, it's always the same issue.

Yep same thing happened to me when I moved into my new build. I believe all it took was moving one wire inside the dryer to fix it and haven't had any issues since.

I too thought it was an issue with the new build electrical, ended up being like $50 for the electrician already on site to just do it.

I presume this is an electric dryer with a 4 wire plug?

Was your previous home a 4 wire plug or a 3 wire setup? Either way, simply remove the jumper between the white and the green wire on the panel where your dryer cord attaches to the back of the unit. Modern homes run a separate line for ground and neutral (4-wire setup), vs the much older method of a combined ground and neutral (3-wire). On the older style modern appliances just bonded the neutral to the ground.

It really isn't that big of a deal and only starts to create an issue when the GFCI that was installed sees an unexpected path to ground.

You're un-doing a setup that makes the newer dryer work in a home built in say 1970.

Correct. Electric Dryer with a 4 wire plug

Basically did this. The white neutral wire was with the green wire for some reason. Put it with the other white wire as shown on the picture and it seems to be working now. Drying some clothes and running a cycle now. Hopefully nothing explodes

Your step mom isn't stuck is she?