Moving electric cooker

Generally speaking, you should expect the painters to paint and not to move furniture or appliances. If they agree to move things upfront, that’s great, otherwise assume they’ll paint around anything you’ve left in their way.

It isn’t a decorators job to remove (temporarily or permanently) electrical appliances. If the current oven is wired into the wall a trained electrician should be used to disconnect the oven. If it’s a plug then it would be up to the customer to request and pay for the additional workload, unless it’s an oven on sliders with a simple plug. Removing the wallpaper from behind an oven is essential. You could paint behind, but it will most probably get quite grubby once the oven is in use. The cleanest look would be to tile behind and above the oven and over the counter wall. You could also cement painted glass behind and over the counter. The more of one thing, ie tiles, you use the more expensive it will look. If you want to go cheap then a ‘safety paint’ that can withstand high temperatures without giving off toxic fumes can be used and screw over a glass or backsplash panel behind.

Painters will not move your furniture unless agreed beforehand

If the oven has been installed properly there should be enough scope to slide the oven out in order to clean or paint behind it.