London Shard cleaned by Rope Access

If there's one thing you can guarantee if you wash your windows... it will rain the next day.

Which means these brave window cleaners must be cursing the bad weather that has rolled in a day after they were spotted abseiling down the side of the Shard in London  - Europe's tallest building.

And either the worker on the far right has finished his section first, or he just fancied a bit of sightseeing as he admires the capital while dangling from his ropes.

The Shard, which is due to open in June, stands a towering 310 metres (1,016ft) tall and is fully clad in glass - meaning there are an awful lot of windows to clean.

It will have 95 floors when it is finished next month and be tipped with a gleaming spire.

The building will offer uninterrupted 360-degree views of the capital, stretching for 40 miles in every direction.

Visitors will be able to enjoy the view from an observatory that will be 72 floors up.

Billed as a ‘vertical city’, it will comprise offices up to floor 28, then three floors of restaurants; a five-star 19-storey hotel of 200 rooms; ten apartments over 12 floors – each seven times larger than a semi-detached house and likely to fetch tens of millions of pounds each; and, finally, the observatory and spire.

Designed by Italian Renzo Piano to resemble an iceberg emerging from the Thames, the Shard has not been without controversy.

English Heritage has expressed fears about the ‘major and detrimental’ impact on views of St Paul’s Cathedral, the Tower of London and the Palace of Westminster.

But the only fears these cleaners probably had was whether their ropes would hold them.

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