Floating ground ?

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Originally Posted by maxhifi

3. Add a ground connection to specific existing outlet. Get an appropriate length of #14 XLPE wire, and connect it from the third prong of the specific outlet being grounded back to a solid ground, such as the electrical panel enclosure, or a copper water pipe.

Some locations require a grounding wire at the utility box and nowhere else. I got in a fight with the inspector in Memphis, because I grounded our washer and dryer to the copper cold water pipe instead of to the central ground. (Our washer and dryer were in an unheated, unfinished, concrete-floor utility room outside of the back of our house.) I did this because if something fails and the ground wire becomes hot and I wanted no possibility for a shock in this potentially wet area.

I then suggested to the inspector that I tie both together, and was told specifically that it was not permitted.

James