George Henry & Co is a trade supplier of abrasives, engineering and welding supplies, and hand and power tools, at 258 Main South Road in Hornby, Christchurch. An in-store power tool repairman offers repairs and safety tagging at the Christchurch City branch. The website lists brands including Bosch, Metabo, King Tony and Powerbuilt, and products such as welders, generators, tool chests and socket sets. The site is showing special offers at the moment, for example a Metabo 18V brushless two-piece kit at $560.87 and a Weldco 200-amp pulse MIG welder at $1,694.35 excluding GST, as at 2026.
Shoppers say the staff are knowledgeable and helpful, and that the store is a good place for tools and trades people. One customer who came from New Brighton says they will not buy tools anywhere else. Another found the store had what they wanted when another shop did not, and praised the prices, saying they were significantly cheaper than other major stores. Tool requirements and product availability come up too.
Within a kilometre, Drills, Taps & Dies Ltd, trading as TradeZone Hornby, is 0.1 km away, rated 4.4 from 29 reviews, and TopmaQ is 0.3 km away, rated 4.1 from 645 reviews. Of the three hardware stores on Open Locally with 10 or more reviews, none rate higher than this one.