Bought this a lot of years ago because of the need for a fairly beefy strimmer and not wanting to go petrol for storage reasons, but all it did was cut like hell for maybe 15 seconds then have to manually feed the twin lines through the spool. So i ended up repeatedly re-wrapping the line, trying different line and taking apart the spool until i realised this thing is just the biggest piece of **** gardening tool that's ever existed, and i refuse to sell or even give it away because no one on Earth should have to put up with this ****.

I absolutely agree with all the previous 6 comments. Homebase didn't give a damn and Sovereign weren't much better. What the hell happened to customer service, quality control etc etc.
SO, as far as Homebase and Sovereign are concerned, I WILL be, speaking metaphorically, voting with my feet on this. AND so too will the average of 10 people of those i have told that follow suit and not use either of them again.
C'mon people, we consumers have an awful lot of power at our finger tips, so in these 'austere' times its time we started using it.
Thanks for reading this and i hope it has been of some use.

Homebase are poor and this Sovereign GGT600L is the first time and last time I will Purchase anything there especially Garden Equipment. When I went to purchase spare trim line for a trimmer that is otherwise good. They said they longer sell parts for this machine as it is discontinued. I contact Homebase by E-mail who said they could not help. Telephoned helpline who were okay but part out of stock. Looking to try to use alternative trimmer none fitted spool so far. Advice Stick to top brands only, like we did with the lawnmover parts easy to get.

This strimmer is not very good. It has a good 600watt motor but the line does not feed, mine broke off after about 10 seconds of use.