ᐅ Painting limestone basement walls with silicate paint?

Hello everyone,

I need to decide whether to plaster, paint, or leave the basement walls as they are.
The basement has exterior walls made of waterproof concrete and interior walls made of sand-lime brick. Since the gas boiler in the utility room is scheduled to be installed at the end of next week, I have to decide fairly quickly how to treat the basement walls (at least in the utility room).
Unfortunately, the bottom row of bricks is damp because the basement was about 10cm (4 inches) underwater and was only pumped out today.
At the moment, I am leaning towards simply painting the basement for cost reasons. From what I have read so far, silicate paint with an appropriate silicate primer works very well.
My question is whether I can already paint the utility room even if the walls are still somewhat damp. What do you think?
If I go for plastering, is that less critical with "wet" walls?

P.S.:
Looking at the description of the silicate primer, it says, "All substrates must be clean, dry, load-bearing, absorbent, and free of release agents."
That would suggest it’s not possible. Or is it actually not that bad, and could I at least paint this one room already?

Let it be, wait until the walls are dry.

That naturally makes it more difficult for me later on when the room is full of equipment...

I had the same issue. There was one corner in the room that was still damp. Apart from that area, I painted the rest. Although it’s not ideal, several recommendations clearly advise never to paint over wet surfaces.

I wanted to suggest the same: First, paint the dry part of the wall (first coat). Then have the technical installations installed according to the plan. Finally, apply a second coat to even out the transitions and cover any missing areas. It’s always tricky in the equipment room...

PS. I’m not sure if this makes sense with silicate paint...

I’m completely torn and already considering having the walls plastered again. I just received an offer. The plasterer would either use machine-applied gypsum plaster (cheaper) or lime-cement plaster (more expensive).