Notes from the round
What ten years of other people's houses teaches you
Written by the people holding the cloth rather than by somebody selling a product. No miracle ingredients, no fifteen-step routines — just what works in an Accra home.
14 July 2026 · Reading time 4 minutes
Five eco-friendly cleaning habits for a Ghanaian home
Most of what sits under a Ghanaian kitchen sink is doing one of three jobs badly. A degreaser, a bathroom acid and a neutral floor soap will cover ninety per cent of a house between them, and buying eight bottles instead of three is mostly a triumph of packaging.
Start with the cloths rather than the chemicals. A microfibre cloth and warm water lift more from a worktop than a supermarket spray on a paper towel, and they go in the wash afterwards rather than in the bin. Colour-code them — one colour for bathrooms, another for kitchens — and the single most common way a house makes itself ill simply stops happening.
Fragrance is not cleanliness. A room that smells of lemon is a room with lemon in the air; a room that smells of nothing has usually been cleaned properly and aired. If somebody in the house has asthma, that distinction is not an aesthetic one.
// Short answers
Three things we say every week
In harmattan, close the louvres
Dust comes in horizontally between December and February. Closing the windward side and running a damp cloth twice a week halves what settles.
Grout is not meant to be white
Bathroom grout in Accra goes grey because it is damp, not because it is dirty. Ventilate first; scrubbing a wet wall just moves the problem.
Bleach is not a cleaner
It disinfects a surface that is already clean and does nothing at all to grease. Wash first, then disinfect, or you have simply bleached the dirt.
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