Home Maintenance -- What do you do?

[entrancedbymyGCC]

We need to have some work done on our house. It's all exterior, but one of the items is refinishing some wooden patio doors, and the stuff used for that is pretty fume-y. However, the work will all be on the outside. What do you do in that circumstance? I will be able to be home while that work is going on and can remove the birds if the odor inside becomes noticeably strong. We did have the front door done shortly after we got Scooter and he took no ill effect, but the door was removed during the actual varnishing, although the odor was detectable for several days. The patio doors are actually next door to a window that opens into the room with the birds, and some of the work will be done without removing the doors. We can certainly keep everything closed up and the room ventilated using the central fan with windows on the other side of the house open. We can also move the birds elsewhere in the house or outside on the front porch in travel cages for the day. Since none of this is actually going to be inside-- only the exterior door surfaces will be treated -- am I over-worrying it? These things were definitely easier in the BP (Before Parrot) days.

[patdbunny]

No, you're not overly concerned. Years ago a neighbor up the block re-roofed his house. The fumes weren't even that bad. I had 3 out of 4 babies die within an hour. And these were older babies that were already feathered out. No adult birds died. I don't have baby deaths like that. I had the dead one necropsied. Results came back inconclusive, but no disease. I discussed w/ the vet. He agreed w/ me that it was probably the roofing job up the block.

Do you have a far corner outside in the yard where you can put them, making sure the wind's not blowing in their direction? Can you take them to work with you on that day? Take them to your pet sitter's house until all the work's done?