Ahh, I'm so sorry, I see where you're coming from now!
You quoted this from me..
I should have been clearer and there should have been a break between the two sentences.
In my mind I was saying "you told us earlier the heating wasn't working but HW was, if you told us both had failed, we might have got their sooner"
And separately "going back to the heating not working, it's the micro switch in the valve that fires the boiler".
I'm afraid I hadn't realised I'd conflated the two, hence it took me a while to understand what you were getting at!