If you’ve never had the pleasure of using Fiberlume, you’ll need a time machine to rectify that. Fiberlume, you see, was a “reflective asphalt based aluminum coating in the nature of a paint for metal roofs or buildings,” according to the page on its canceled trademark. In practice, the coating in the form of a paint was used to patch leaky mobile homes. That’s not what I used it for though.
Instead, I used it, alongside my coworker in the maintenance department, to cover the non-metal roof of the factory at which we worked. The large flat surface didn’t do well in the heat, humidity, and rain of Pine Bluff, Arkansas, so my coworker and I spent a large portion of our summer job
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