i feel your pain...my drive is dug up at the mo as im having it paved....wont see the light of day for at least a fortnight...and it'll almost certainly be monsoon season by then.....
I work away from home so can't even look at it and put on all my carbon presents I have bought for it,but its a great thing to come home to,sorry wife and kids but that's the way it is,I have to walk past the garage to get to the lounge anyway :wink:
Get some old plywood to lay down to enable you to leave/return, shouldn't worry your contractors too much.