when choosing your skirting boards you have the option of using various materials including mdf, hardwoods, softwoods and even plastic these days to cover old skirting boards. We would recommend that mdf skirting boards are your best bet unless you are going for expensive looking skirting such as oak skirting boards but more often than not we provide mdf skirting boards as standard because these provide the best cost to quality ratio of any other skirting that you will find anywhere. so mdf skirting board is simply the best option.