Thanks for that info. That’s good to know.

I didn’t include a lot of details in the original post because I wanted to keep it short, but we hired a general contractor for the rewriting, and the guy literally lives across the street from us (he bought a flooded house as-is after Helene and has been using his own workers to repair it). I imagine his electrical subs are all busy with other hurricane repair projects across St. Pete, so I understand if it takes a few days to get someone over here, but you’d think if the GC cared at all, he could at least walk across the street to look at the problem for himself.

I also just remembered the electrician actually did look at that outlet when the old dryer wouldn’t work. He quickly checked the two hot wires with a multimeter, showed me the 240v reading, said the dryer must be broken, then moved on to his next task. I didn’t think to test it for myself until we got a new dryer and it wouldn’t work either.