Our house was built in 1997, so pretty much everything is still original from when it was manufactured. We have one window that we just found out recently was fucked up before we bought the house and that whoever owned it (or the renovators) did a shitty temporary repair job on it and it finally busted again. It's the window sash on a single hung window.

Without getting into everything that's wrong with it, we just need to replace the sash (the part of the window that slides up and down to open and close it). You would think this would be something simple, but it's not. No matter how you search for it, all you can come up with are companies that want to come out and give you an estimate to replace your entire window, which we don't need. Why the fuck doesn't anyone just sell the sash part, why do they want the whole window to be replaced. I don't need a new window and I don't need some 'installer' coming out to replace the sash when it's a 5 minute swap out that I can do myself.

Anyone else ever run into this?