Can I carpet my garage?

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Beeznitch

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183 months

Friday 17th December 2010
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I recently moved into my first house and am currently working on the garage. The walls and ceiling are sorted, but I am unsure of what to do about the floor. 99% of the time my weekend car lives in there, however I have also built a bar in there for parties etc so I would like to do something other than just paint the floor.

I have ruled out ceramic tiles because I work on my own car and I would be worried about jacking the car up on them, and the tiles I would like are out of my budget. I did fancy black and white vinyl self adhesive tiles but they are unfortunately out of my budget too.

So, could I lay carpet in there? I would also lay 2 runs of vinyl tiles where the car wheels run to prevent damage/rot to the carpet. Or even laminate?

If I laid carpet in there I would have to be so careful with spills etc that it may end up pi$$ing me off, that's my biggest concern.

Any opinions?