In uk.d-i-y, FirstTimer wrote:
Simply - views and sources for pull cord switches that are silent, or
near silent please?

They *used* to be much quieter - ISTM that the noisy ones were
introduced a couple of decades ago. I don't like them either. You could
buy an older house, but make sure that in the contract it says that they
have to leave the light switches.

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Mike Barnes