I've spent the last two days having 700 sq. ft. of oak floor replaced and for sure I had to find a way to keep Max out of the way. I put a folding table across the doorway from the hall to the rest of the house and he was barricaded for two days with access just to the hall and bedrooms and the outside. I couldn't believe how good he was. He just took a nap on my bed or kept me company in the computer room, and totally ignored the noise of the banging and sawing - yesterday it sounded like a giant dental drill. 
However, yet once again, he proved himself totally worthless as a watch dog. I didn't have to lock him up Monday because all they were doing was taking the furniture out and putting it in a giant pod in the driveway - and Max just sat there, tail wagging, watching total strangers take our stuff out and he never so much as barked once. 
Joyce