What to do with messed up upstairs /downstairs socket circuits?

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PaulUszak

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Imagine a three bedroom house with an upstairs and downstairs, and a garage. It was build circa 1985. Imagine too a consumer unit with two breakers for all the sockets. Let's call them left and right.

A. If you turn off the left breaker, all sockets upstairs go off. All sockets downstairs go off except the kitchen. This breaker has a label on it saying "upstairs".

B. If you turn off the right breaker, only the kitchen goes off. This breaker is labelled "downstairs".

Methinks that this might not be right. In essence, the entire house bar the kitchen is on one 32A circuit breaker. I can't imagine what shape the circuit must be. Strangely, my cousin doesn't get many breaker trips so the total current capacity must be okay for his needs. So my questions are:-

1. Is this a problem?

2. If a problem, can anything simple be done?
 
One ring for the kitchen and one ring for everything else is not an unreasonable split. High power appliances tend to be clustered in the kitchen in mose houses.

What worries me more is the mislabeling. It would seem to indicate a high level of sloppiness on the part of whoever did their labeling which raises the question of whether said sloppiness was limited to mere labelling.
 
@plugwash The kitchen ring excludes the electric oven. The oven's on it's own circuit from another mini consumer unit, along with the immersion heater. Probably should have said that earlier. Does this change your opinion?

PS. No, the sloppiness was not limited to mere labelling.
 
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