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Sure, that's what it should be if it was installed now, but the current fusebox is 20+ years old and the kitchen wiring is 15+ years old (an MFI installation based on the paperwork the previous residents left behind). The existing oven is only 12A so it is plugged into a socket at the back of one of the cupboards.
I know how it should be done, and moving the oven to its own circuit would allow me to upgrade the oven at some point in the future to something >12A with minimal fuss, so all of that goes without saying.
I only mentioned it because I know that it'll need a lot of rewiring (rather than using the existing cables) because I already know that there aren't enough circuits, so a load of new circuits will be required.
Questions were more about relative cost of redecoration and also what's the latest stuff that people are also getting wired in at the same time (aside from Cat 5/6 and TV coax). Personally I'm not interested in routing audio anywhere or any smart house stuff but other people may have done some things that could be useful.
Greenbank-
Having just had a house rewired as part of a refurb...
Can’t help you with costs of redecoration.
In terms of other things to consider. We went Cat6 everywhere (the incremental cost over Cat5 was negligible). We made sure that we put at least 2 ports behind each TV and have all our Sky boxes in one place and send them over cat 6 to multiple rooms, means I have Sky in every bedroom easily.
Only other thing to consider would be potentially speaker wire, I have that going to two corners of every room and all going back to central location so I can pipe music to any room remotely.
Sam_w
Oven/cooker normally on its own fuse/rcd/rcbo, separate from the ring for sockets for the kitchen.