Professional or not ?

[denso13]

the band comes in the box with the new stat

Unless it was missing. No excuse to leave it as it was though.

 

[fixitflav]

Here's how I did mine. Over 20 years ago, I think it came with a curtain wire strap, but I thought that would dig into the insulation so used a metal band from a package. As somebody said, if you haven't got a special strap it's easy to use a length of curtain wire and hooks.

 

[ericmark]

To my mind it's not the shoddy way the thermostat is held on. But the question is what else. If can't get simple visible things right, then what about the heat transfer paste and connection of earth wire? If required.

My tank is lacking a thermostat, it is on my to do list.

 

[Madrab]

Might at least have used gaffa tape FFS

 

[roguetrader]

Here's how I did mine. Over 20 years ago, I think it came with a curtain wire strap, but I thought that would dig into the insulation so used a metal band from a package. As somebody said, if you haven't got a special strap it's easy to use a length of curtain wire and hooks.

45° ?

 

[fixitflav]

45° ?

I think you can take that with a pinch of salt. The stat is quite low in the cylinder. The water at the taps is plenty hot enough.