On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 12:56:30 -0400, Tommy Silvah
wrote:

I'd pilot drill and use #10 x 3-1/2" deck screws and call it a day.

That's cheating. We gotta buy hundreds of dollars worth of new power
tools. Don't you get it?

If he is OK with the screws pulling out as soon as the humidity gets
to that particle board, it will work.