Painting limestone basement walls with silicate paint?

Hello everyone,

I have to decide right now whether the basement walls should be plastered, painted, or just left as they are.
The basement has exterior walls made of waterproof concrete and interior walls made of sand-lime bricks. Since the gas boiler in the utility room is supposed to be installed by the end of next week, I have to decide fairly quickly how I want the basement walls (at least in the utility room).
Unfortunately, the bottom row of bricks is wet because the basement was about 10cm under water and it was only pumped out today.
Currently, I am leaning towards just painting the basement for cost reasons. From everything I have read so far, silicate paint with an appropriate silicate primer is very suitable.
The question now is whether I can at least paint the utility room even if the walls are still a bit damp. What do you think?
If I do decide to have them plastered, is that less critical with still "damp" walls?

P.S.:
When I look at the description of the silicate primer, it says, "All substrates must be clean, dry, load-bearing, absorbent, and free of separating agents."
That would mean it’s not possible. Or is it perhaps not so bad after all and one could at least paint that one room already?

Let it be, wait until the walls are dry

That naturally makes it more difficult for me afterwards, when the room is full of technology...

Had the same problem. Had a corner in the room that was still wet. Except for this area, I painted the rest. It's not ideal either, but according to several recommendations, you should never paint on wet surfaces.

I wanted to suggest that too: Paint the dry part of the wall first (first coat). Then have the technology installed according to plan. At the end, apply a second coat that evens out the transitions and covers the missing areas. It's always tricky in the technology room ...

PS. I don't know if that's sensible with silicate paint ...

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