Electrical question

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20. My parent's house was a 50s house with cloth wire in thin wall pipe. Cook county

My 105 year old chicago condo has old pipe and really flat ceiling j-boxes that nothing attaches to.

It's hard to tell what's original but some of that stuff was laid in to the sub floor under the original hardwood. I was helping my neighbors dad and he took a saws all to one of those pipes and got the surprise of his life. It was the other neighbors living room power. Fortunately we had a sparky on the way for something else.

My electrician once warned me that some of those old thin wall pipes still have gas hooked to them. I think some of the old conduit may have been gas pipe for gas lamps at one point.

I gutted my place and found heavy black pipe with wire, thin wall pipe with no wire and some with and miles of armored cable and some emt conduit. No nob and tube though or any traces of it